Lawyerly Restaurants Quotes & Sayings

Empathy requires us to step outside of our own agendas long enough to develop an understanding of the other person's perspective. It can be rightly stated that no relationship will be whole without ongoing displays of empathy. — Les Carter

We are not victims of heredity or genetic control. — Faiez Kirsten

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson

Where I fail in accuracy, I hope I make up for it in plausibility. — Elizabeth Wein

I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon. — Cynthia Daignault

First it is done to us, then we do it to others, then we order it done. Such is the way of things — Joe Abercrombie

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books. — A.S. Byatt

If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now - the ground is prepared for this planting. — Dorothy Maclean

I want to know my whole story works before I start working. — Tom Schulman

None of us can help the things life has done to us. They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever. — Eugene O'Neill

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her. — Vera Farmiga

Why is it that people talk about death, as if it is a part of life, when it is entirely separate? Someone passes on into the never ending void, where the living aren't allowed. We can't see, hear, touch or feel those who have succumbed to the eternal sleep, but we comfort ourselves with thoughts of a grander plan. We tell ourselves that they are in a better place, but what could be greater than breathing the same air, as those loved ones? Their pain may be gone, but pleasure can only be when it is stark against the hurt that life brings? — J.D. Stroube