Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Jerome K. Jerome

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• In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Time
  • Fall

• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Sympathy

• Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Sympathy
  • Develop
  • Trials

• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  

  Xenophon
  • Know
  • Grief
  • Sympathy

• Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Country
  • School
  • Help

• You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Love
  • Support

• He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Sympathy
  • Him
  • Maternal

• Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Real

• The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Learn
  • Sorrow
  • Sympathy

• I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Sympathy
  • Intolerance

• The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Sympathy

• By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Earth
  • Church
  • Sympathy

• My answer to that i.e. the question of whether Ruth hoped to set a new single-season HR record was 'No.' I don't believe I can ever better my 60 mark that I made in 1927. And, frankly, I don't believe anyone else will beat it for a long time either.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • World
  • Great
  • America

• Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • Book
  • Daughter

• In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hussyn will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Age
  • Death
  • Sympathy

• If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I hope that Los Altos is one of the first cities to have self-driving cars, and if that's true, well, awesome, because there's a lot of parking lots that we could get rid of and use for parks. That would be amazing!

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • True
  • Hope
  • Amazing

• It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.

  

  Carson Daly
  • People
  • Important
  • Guy

• Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Important
  • Money
  • Guy

• It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Sympathy