Zimbertools Quotes & Sayings

Compassion is not an idea or something we can imagine. It is a mental formation that has an immediate result in action of body, speech, or mind. It is rooted in understanding. When we understand why we suffer we can be compassionate to ourselves. When we understand how others suffer then we can be compassionate to them. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style. — Natalie Dormer

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste. — Gough Whitlam

Learn to be friendly and learn to welcome all people, but note however in doing so that it is not every hand that is stretched towards you that deserves your handshake! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Hands down, that's the most romantic thing I've ever heard. I can pretty much feel my legs just falling wide open for you right now. — Kylie Scott

You grab onto happiness with two hands, darling. Life's all about the journey. You remember that. — Deborah Lytton

You treat me like a child, but I know what I fucking know. You're scared. Love comes with responsibilities, and you've been hiding from them your whole life. — Bijou Hunter

Rachel looked annoyed. "Do you think he's embarrassed by us?"
"More likely he's embarrassed by her," said Gabriel. "She's probably a stripper."
"Professors in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." Rachel glared at her brother and stormed out. — Sylvain Reynard

They say: sufferings are misfortunes, said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us. — Leo Tolstoy

Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time — Robert Jordan

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne

And it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy. — Edward Gibbon

She's taken over one of the castle's towers and painted the walls with images of the philosopher's stone. It's like working inside a Ripley scroll! I've — Deborah Harkness

There is no question that a Neanderthal could easily beat us up. So, too, presumably could their women, which may be why we are only 2 percent Neanderthal instead of 50 percent. Those bitches were too scary for us. — Bill Bryson

Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare. — Dorothy Thompson