Compassionista Quotes & Sayings

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil. — Walter Salles

Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed. — Jeanette Winterson

Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
Come once a day to suffocate the sight. — Allen Tate

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. — Maria Mitchell

He regretted nothing. Not the way she'd felt in his arms and not the way he'd felt in hers. — Jill Shalvis

That is my job, right? To comfort him. To keep the portrait of what he left behind intact. Isn't that a woman's duty during wartime? — Suzanne Hayes