Elizabeth Wein Quotes

If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.

Elizabeth Wein

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• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Good
  • Compassion

• 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

• I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Travel

• I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Art

• To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Great
  • Memory
  • Liar

• The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • American
  • Perfect

• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Life
  • You
  • Liar

• When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Compassion

• I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and illegible liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Liar

• Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.

  

  Ben Stein
  • People
  • God
  • Science

• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Nuclear
  • Atom

• We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Compassion

• Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

  

  Allen West
  • Power
  • Together
  • High

• I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There's an innate honesty, a purity to him.

  

  Doug Liman
  • World
  • Men
  • Country

• I think the challenge for humans remains the same as it has always been: to learn the skills of kindness, compassion, and love. Without these sacred skills, all technology can do is grow the shadows in our lives.

  

  Alexander Weinstein
  • Compassion
  • Kindness
  • Lives

• Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

  

  Paul Watson
  • World

• Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

  

  Max Muller
  • Together
  • Deep
  • Thoughts

• I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

  

  Margaret O'Brien

• If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Compassion
  • Liar
  • Atom