Flickers Birds Quotes & Sayings

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I'm looking forward to sproglets but, as I'm the main breadwinner, I feel I ought to capitalise on my career for a bit longer. Mother keeps telling me I should go and freeze some eggs. Not terribly romantic, is it? — Honeysuckle Weeks

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. — Socrates

Tell the truth, lies are difficult to remember. — William Cranch Bond

You do not own the rain, or the
trees, or the laws which pertain to them. — Mary Oliver

Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That. — Rumi

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace? — Thomas Aquinas

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination. — Rosemary Mahoney

Wrong always feels right." He answered harshly. "It's why hell is full of lost souls who weren't strong enough. — Juliana Stone

To wonder is to begin to understand. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast. — Ang Lee

Don't fight fair; don't worry what you look like," Joshua continued. "Do whatever you have to do to stop our enemy, no holds barred."
"Like a sale at Loehmann's," Brynne said. — Cate Tiernan

It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history. — Pope Benedict XVI

85. And I? What am I? Do I live? Or am I always walking in death? Forever in love with time? — Anne Rice

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise. — Spike Jonze