Piteously Def Quotes & Sayings

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost. — Raghuram Rajan

If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that! — Phil Robertson

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment. — Antonin Sertillanges

Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them. — Sharon Salzberg

I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever. — Graham Greene

There is no greater feeling than to have found my passion in writing. — Robin Murphy

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible. — B.G. Bowers