Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

E. M. Forster

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Philip Sidney

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

George Santayana

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Felicia Hemans

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Catharine Beecher

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

George Eliot

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

George Eliot

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Ashton Kutcher

Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me.

Ben Folds

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Janet Jackson

I need you like the blues needs the pain.

Anton Chekhov

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

Demi Lovato

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

Dean Koontz

Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

Craig Ferguson

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

Brandi Chastain

I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

Benjamin Cardozo

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

Bret Easton Ellis

... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.

Artie Lange

For a degenerate like me, Vegas is like a walk down memory lane. Last time I went to Vegas, I went to my old coke dealer's kid's bar mitzvah.

Arjun Rampal

I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

Bruce Lee

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Eckhart Tolle

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Eddie Redmayne

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

Anna Jameson

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

Alain Rene Le Sage

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).