The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
“Don't feel pity for those who will feel disappointed because you have scored! You were trained not to entertain a pity party… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what… — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
“You know what? Let’s have the fucking truth. I’ve heard your pathetic excuses, how about you hear me out now? Let me… — Mia Asher Copy Share Image
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Oh dear. I do believe this is self-pity. I am imagining myself dramatically dead, tragically taken from you and even more lamentably… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times,… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest,… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
“It’s a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are measuring their lives… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born… — W.E.B. DuBois Copy Share Image
“I'd pity you," she said in a conversational tone. "But you know,you just aren't worth it. I'd pity your new son, too,but… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Have you no pity?' Glokta could only shrug. 'I did have. As a boy I was soft-hearted beyond the point of foolishness.… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“pity this busy monster, manunkind' pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the… — Greg Chappell Copy Share Image
“No one is harming you, you are fine, you sit in silence, alone in a desolate park after the rain, or in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“There were friends all over London who would welcome his eagerly to their homes, who would throw open their guest rooms and… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The concern is that the images to be devised won't be sufficiently upsetting: not concrete, not detailed enough. Pity can entail a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image