Sikerja Quotes & Sayings

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do
but who is that 'we'?
and nothing 'they' can do either
and who are 'they'
then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic. — Susan Sontag

For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

We build walls to protect ourselves from the hurt and pain. But someday you will realize that you are alone, in your own prison. — S.C. Rhyne

Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves — Lewis Carroll

My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope ... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth. — Claude Monet

Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe. — Rafael Benitez

I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints. — Aslaug Magnusdottir

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience. — Faith Hill