Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

Virchand Gandhi

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.

Woodrow Wilson

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

William Wycherley

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.

William Wordsworth

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

William Hull

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

Walter Scott

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

William Hazlitt

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

William Hazlitt

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

Jake Delhomme

I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perfect call.

Craig Carpenter

We took our CEO, who is not a technologist, through the new setup wizard with no problem. It was the perfect test case.

Mel Kiper

I think that makes a lot of sense. For the type of scheme they play, he would be perfect for what they need.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richelle Mead

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Indifference breeds animosity.

Emile M. Cioran

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Pope Francis

Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.

Paul Valery

Politeness is organized indifference.

Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Ambrose Bierce

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

Ambrose Bierce

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Nicolas Chamfort

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Mason Cooley

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.