Decommissioned Ships Quotes & Sayings

I think that many people do not know what empathy is. They think empathy is understanding their own selves and then connecting with like-minded individuals, who of course will understand them since they all share the same ideas. Empathy has nothing to do with likemindedness; it has to do with being able to feel the things that others feel, even when you do not share the same ideas, life story, or absolutely nothing at all! When I hear someone say, "I don't understand you", that makes me feel sorry for them. I can even understand a rock, and they can't understand me? My pet rocks have more empathy than they do. — C. JoyBell C.

When a person becomes happy, the world becomes lighter! If all becomes happy, the world will be weightless! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am never going to write for the sake of writing. — Emma Lazarus

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. — Salvador Dali

Cripes, just listen to that desperation mixed with a wild joie de vivre. That doesn't come out of nothing. They'll be able to hear that a massive eruption once rocked the world and scattered pain and passion in it's wake. — Cat Winters

...behind every Guide Michelin chef there was a woman, usually a four foot cataract-ridden old granny from whom he'd filched his best recipes. — Karen Karbo

What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger ... I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep ... I'll draw you a fence for your flower ... I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him ... It's so mysterious, the land of tears. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

There was a formula - a sort of list of things to say and do - which I recognised as something black and forbidden; something which I had read of before in furtive paragraphs of mixed abhorrence and fascination penned by those strange ancient delvers into the universe's guarded secrets whose decaying texts I loved to absorb. — H.P. Lovecraft

Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. — Zora Neale Hurston

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. — Samuel Butler

A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things — Aliette De Bodard

What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others ... And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what? — Roberto Bolano

Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous. — Seth Grahame-Smith

You try to be a nice guy, but girls just have to be stubborn about it. Then they complain chivalry is dead. Screw that. — Becca Ann