Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.
Quotes to Explore
-
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
-
As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
-
I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
-
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
-
In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
-
If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
-
Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
-
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
-
I don't believe that competitions are important.
-
In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
-
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
-
There is nothing more important in life than love.
-
It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.
-
My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
-
The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
-
California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
-
My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
-
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
-
One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.
-
One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.
-
The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.
-
I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.
-
It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.
-
I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.
