Compassion By Black Authors Quotes & Sayings

Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing. — Milan Kundera

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street. — Muddy Waters

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil. — Stephen Charnock

Wasn't that the way life always worked? To learn a hard truth too late- was that better than never learnig it at all? Possible not. At least, if one never discovered what one wanted, one could never miss not having it. — Karen Robards

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety. — Alexander Hamilton

Today I am unafraid of lifting up my voice, calling it my own and discovering its infinite beauty. — Shauntay Grant

The Untouchables, in modern times, had won the useless right of being touched by the high caste, but they remained the poorest in the city. Every — Manu Joseph

EPH4.11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; — Anonymous

Hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds. — Phyllis Bottome

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss. — Jean De La Bruyere

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest. — Mark Twain

We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals. — Peter Singer

I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms. — Victoria Beckham

But this first installation was by no means the last. Every year the Queen had some new fancy for beautifying her miniature kingdom with more highly artificial and more "natural" additions and alterations. — Stefan Zweig