“Anyone who says "we must try to understand" those who make life miserable for those undeserving of misery is abiding and abetting… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“In the middle of this poor life, we are surrounded by mystery, and the pity of it is that we would rather… — Jennifer Stevenson Copy Share Image
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment… — Charlotte Bingham Copy Share Image
In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our… — Benjamin Todd Jealous Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St.… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
“There must surely be much more to be said than the mere recounting of an incident: about the loves and hates of… — Es'kia Mphahlele Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of… — Julius Charles Hare 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
People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about… — Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Copy Share Image
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her spirit, are simply… — Emma Paul Copy Share Image
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity,… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture…He takes upon himself… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as… — Y. C. James Yen Copy Share Image
I've held a lot of pity parties for myself. There was a time when I never wanted to face the public again.… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
“I find it tiresome when people parade their agonies for public viewing; the last thing I want to evoke is pity. We… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity.… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear,… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
“Pity is such an awful, useless emotion- you have to bottle it up and keep it to yourself.The moment you try to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
“When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such… — Adam Makos Copy Share Image
By choice they made themselves immune To pity and whatever moans in man Before the last sea and the hapless stars; Whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
