It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more,… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When an unconquered country is conquered, people are killed... . That the beloved of the Gods finds very pitiful and grievous. ...… — Ashoka Copy Share Image
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful... ... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
For what we don't realize today is just what the typical self of every previous stage failed likewise to comprehend: this is… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life.… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. — Sean O'Faolain Copy Share Image
