Stephen Rodrick Quotes
NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.Stephen Rodrick
Quotes to Explore
-
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 -
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde -
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon -
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 -
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 -
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
-
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher -
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 -
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 -
I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.
Agatha Christie -
Queen Paola and I will never forget the ties that have grown between the people and us during the course of the years. Thank you for your confidence, tokens of sympathy and support, sometimes even with a little criticism. We always loved you.
Albert II of Belgium
-
AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story.
Jim Brown -
It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
John Joseph Lydon -
I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
Anson Mount -
If you're disabled, and you're trying to achieve your dreams, accept the fact right now that you have to work 500 times more than the average bear next to you. Stop bucking for sympathy, put on your titanium legs, and run.
Maysoon Zayid -
I think any of us, including Coach Parcells, would say that it's players that win games. You have to have great players.
Joe Gibbs -
We fought hard all day and kept slugging, ... I was proud of our guys because they've got great heart. They found a way to win the ballgame.
Joe Gibbs
-
Service works by the gradual buildup of sympathy through failed attempted solutions.
Brian Christian -
I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.
John Travolta -
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde -
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?
D. T. Suzuki -
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
Mahatma Gandhi -
NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.
Stephen Rodrick