Stivali Lisboa Quotes & Sayings

Pity is when I'm feeling sorry for someone but I'm looking down on them, I'm patronizing them, feeling like I'm giving them a gift. Compassion and empathy is when I feel bad for them, but I'm on the same level. That I've felt what they are feeling too, that I have experienced pain and sorrow like they have. I am with them, not above them. Same goes for self-pity. — Stu Jenks

Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics. — Jasmine Guinness

When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel. — Matthea Harvey

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them. — Billy Bragg

The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy ... She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave. — Mary Jo Putney

Your desire to advise other people,
grows in line with your perception ...
that assumes you're wiser than them. — Toba Beta