...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
“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
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
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
Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history… — Felix S. Cohen Copy Share Image
A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“The greatest miracle was that in the end I could actually feel pity for those men because they were so deluded: they… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us We do not need… — Louis Braille Copy Share Image
A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.' 'And not a single coin are they donating', said Dina.… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“I pity him who refuses to leave the minatory of his refutable Judgments and still insisting on producing his light to lit… — Annie Ali 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
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“What a pity Bilbo did not stab the vile creature, when he had a chance! Pity? It was Pity that stayed his… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“...and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reckoned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous 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
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
“The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all… — Rod Serling 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
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image