My Elder Sister Birthday Quotes & Sayings

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world. — Karen Armstrong

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair. — Jay-Z

I love 'Scandal.' It's my favorite show - it's really - the only one I really watch. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them. — Doug Liman

The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument. — Adolf Hitler

Scientist's intellect is their ship as they navigate through the treacherous waters of detail where, hopefully, their good sense and rationale leads them to truth. Religious leaders already have the truth and those tenants that are not well-defined don't need a defense because faith shields them from the onslaught of details and facts."
- Fillossofee, Messages from a Grandfather - an ebook — Robert Gately

This is what it means to be a fanatic - but a fanatic, that is to say, in a very special sense. It has little in common with the obsession of the politician or the artist, for instance, for both of these understand in a greater or lesser degree the impulse which drives them. But the sportsman fanatic - that is another matter entirely.
His thoughts fixed solely on a vision of that mounted trophy against the wall, the eyes now dead that were once living, the tremulous nostrils stilled, the sensitive pricked ears closed to sound at the instant when the rifle shot echoed from the naked rocks, this man hunts his quarry through some instinct unknown even to himself.
Stephen was a sportsman of this kind. It was not the skill needed that drove him, nor the delight and excitement of the stalk itself, but a desire, so I told myself, to destroy something beautiful and rare. Hence his obsession with chamois. ("The Chamois") — Daphne Du Maurier

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality. — Marya Mannes

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it ... it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling. — Ryan Adams