Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

Daniel Dennett

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

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.

Alfie Kohn

What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade

Andrew Garfield

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

Ann Aguirre

Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.

William Shakespeare

I have more care to stay than will to go.

William Shakespeare

Things past redress are now with me past care

We have an outstanding group of doctors, nurses, therapists and administrative personnel. They are highly trained, very caring and extremely dedicated. This greatly enhances our quality of life in Austin.

Ed McMahon

Those aren't things you want to worry about later. It's important that the people caring for your loved one have all that information on hand from day one.

Thomas Sowell

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Tariq Ramadan

We need to revisit how the Prophet dealt with water, animals, in how he talked about slaughtering, caring for plants and so forth. Respect towards nature is a part of Islam. This is essential but Muslims are not aware. The whole world is talking about global warming and respecting nature but Muslims are not doing enough of that.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

Rashida Jones

Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

Rajneesh

The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.

Tony Robbins

Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something to the table through his or her vision that is not being provided by others - a special way of meeting needs, caring for others, treating patients, or marketing. An entrepreneur must have enormous faith. Risk-taking is critical to the development of an enterprise. You will not take risks unless you have the faith to do so.