Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Height

We had people of all backgrounds coming together -- all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life, ... And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

Ronny Turiaf

To see them caring so much about what I was going through, that's what helped keep me going.

Judy Smith

We don't think patients go by county lines. We've been caring for these people for years and years.

Laura Bush

The responsibility of caring for hundreds of thousands of citizens who no longer have homes is going to place many demands on our nation, ... We have many difficult days ahead, especially as we recover those who did not survive the storm.

David Shore

What's widely interpreted as being likable is caring and soft and fuzzy and I just think that's boring. People don't want to watch a guy who's hateful. That's a tricky thing - to make a guy interesting and difficult and troubled and flawed but not hateful.

Creed Bratton

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

Dan Harmon

I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life.

Douglas Coupland

You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful

Douglas Coupland

I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Amy Poehler

Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.

Allan Bloom

Bacon , Locke , Descartes , Hume , and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

Ann Brashares

There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.

Tom Rath

When you are caring for someone who is in hospice you learn all these skills that you never think you will need again. Well I had them, and I thought, why not use them? I am fortunate to be in the situation I am in right now and I have a desire to give something of myself.

What we've always said is that every child here is going to be treated with unconditional positive regard because they deserve it as every child does. It's all about making healthy, caring attachments for these boys. They give it to the horses and the horses give it back. It's about learning to develop a relationship, something many of them have never done before.

Donald E. Westlake

Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

Dorothy Height

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Dalai Lama

The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.

Dalai Lama

Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere.

Dalai Lama

If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

Dalai Lama

In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.

Dalai Lama

I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

Dick Morris

Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

Desmond Tutu

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, 'My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life.

Chuck Palahniuk

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

Ally Condie

Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

Anna Garlin Spencer

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves

Anna Deavere Smith

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Daniel Dennett

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

David Foster Wallace

It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.

Confucius

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

Alicia Keys

I'm a very caring person.

Anne Lamott

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

Annie Dillard

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.