Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Storr

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Billie Jean King

Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Benjamin Disraeli

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Ben Elton

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

C. S. Lewis

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Elizabeth Drew

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

Isiah Thomas

Our prayers and thoughts are with him. We will do everything that we're supposed to do and beyond.

J. J. Johnson

Our prayer has been from day one that other towns can see that we can do this.

C. S. Lewis

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

C. S. Lewis

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

C. S. Lewis

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

C. S. Lewis

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

C. S. Lewis

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Alexander Pushkin

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

Ernst Toller

At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

Kathryn Schulz

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

Katherine Mansfield

The whole world shall be ours because of our love.

Patti Smith

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

Marianne Williamson

We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.