Empathizing Responses Quotes & Sayings

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them. — Paulo Coelho

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer. — Abraham Lincoln

Well, those who aren't waiting for you don't know what they're missing. — Cindy C. Bennett

Like swatting flies with a laser cannon. The aim's a bit tricky, but it sure takes care of the flies. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me. — Nic Pizzolatto

There, alone in the sterile room, sitting on a pink vinyl chair that boasts many cracks in its once nice upholster, you wait. You think to yourself , who would have thought I would be ringing in the New Year by urinating into a cup to see if I have chlamydia? — Amanda Steele

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Each day is a lifetime. — Michael Leunig

Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command. — Monica Crowley

Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle. — Norman Vincent Peale

Frederick the Great once said that the greatest crime in war is not to make the wrong decision, but to make no decision.' Again the Prince gestured at Sharpe with the brandy glass. 'You should remember that axiom, Sharpe!' Sharpe did not even know what an axiom was, but he nodded respectfully. 'I will, sir. — Bernard Cornwell

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential. — John C. Maxwell

Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.
In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime. — Irvin S. Cobb

And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies. — Robert Louis Stevenson