I Quotes
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“I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.”
“I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery. I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race. No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.”
Source: Up from Slavery
“I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.”
Source: Up from Slavery: Top Biography
“I pity him in his misery for all that he is my foe, because he is bound fast to a dread doom. I think of my own lot no less than his. For I see that we are phantoms, all we who live, or fleeting shadows.”
Source: Ajax
“I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.”
Source: Seven winters
“I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.”
“I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.”
“I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.”
“I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.”
“I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself
“I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.”
Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts
“I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.”
Source: Healology
“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
“I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.”
“I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to discover any others.”
“I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves”
“I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.”
Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
“I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?”
Source: Works of Cowper and Thomson
“I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)”
Source: Dream Warrior
“I pity those who hate because they will never experience the beauty of true love, there is no way they will be able to understand it for they are opposite emotions each leading you to different path in life one to joy and beauty the other to destruction.”
“I pity those who have no taste for reading.”
“I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you.”
“I pity you Juliet. You don't know what love is. You think it's Valentine's Day, and weekends in Italy. You think it's drinking champagne in some expensive restaurant and being bought stupid bloody underwear. But that's just the trimmings. The decoration. They're just gestures. Without trust, and respect, and kindness, they don't mean shit. I thought love was about caring about someone day in and day out, about being there when it's rucking amazing and still wanting to be there when it feels like crap, I thought it was about forever.”
Source: Calling Romeo
“I più avveduti sono coloro che stanno vicino alla natura: chi abita in montagna pare che abbia nello sguardo un senso di gratitudine verso il mondo, non ha le arroganze cittadine. Chi coltiva la terra esprime già un amore, e può ancora credere in un mondo sano e salvo. Per l'esperienza che ho dei miei paesi l'ipocrisia è assai meno frequente rispetto al capoluogo. E poi nei paesi è più chiaro il corso delle cose, se ne coglie l'inizio, lo svolgimento e la fine.”
Source: Vento forte tra Lacedonia e Candela: esercizi di paesologia
“I più bei regali sono quelli che si danno da cuore a cuore.”
“I più celebrati utopisti dei tempi moderni... offrono un quadro pressochè statico degli attributi essenziali dell'uomo e, di conseguenza, una descrizione altrettanto statica della società perfetta ritenuta raggiungibile. Con ciò essi ignorano il carattere degli uomini in quanto esseri che si autotrasformano, che sono capaci di libere scelte - entro i limiti imposti dalla natura e dalla storia - fra scopi contrastanti e reciprocamente incompatibili.”
Source: The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
“I più trascorrono la maggior parte del tempo lavorando per vivere, e quel po' di libertà che rimane loro li spaventa a tal punto che ricorrono a ogni mezzo per liberarsene. Oh destino degli uomini!”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
“I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.”
“I place a higher value on work ethic than talent, because, in certain areas, you just need to cast, you need to cast actors with talent, you need to hire directors with talent, but I've worked with very talented people who have a poor work ethic, and the outcome is less desirable than people who are less talented and have an incredible work ethic.”
“I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.”
“I place a palm at his chest. His heartbeat knocks rapidly against my skin. "I never would have guessed."
"What's that?" he asks on a hoarse whisper.
"That you're one of those netherlings who has a rare penchant for kindness and courage."
"Tut." He presses his glove over my hand. "Only when there's fringe benefits."
Smiling, I rise to my toes, grip his lapels, and kiss each one of his jewels until they change to a captivating dark purple—the color of passion fruit. I ease back to the balls of my feet. "So beautiful," I whisper, tapping one of the sparkling gems.
Morpheus catches my palm and kisses the scars there. "I couldn't agree more."”
Source: Splintered
“I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.”
“I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”
“I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.”
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends
“I place my arm around her, drawing her close, and let her tears soak my sweater as the breeze rustles the flora and the lanterns sway under a brilliant blanket of stars. I hold her for the longest time as she sits, suffering, in the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen.”
Source: Beautiful Shining People
“I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.”
Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife
“I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.”
“I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power”
Source: Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism
“I place my stethoscope onto their chest to listen for the lub-dub sound of the heart valves. Then I wait. I wait a long, silent, slow five minutes. I listen for silence and feel for the presence of absence. No sound is heard and no pulse is felt.”
Source: Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life
“I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that have wandered from You and soften their hardness.”
“I place myself in situations where a lot of people are going to be, and bring a particular body of work that reflects the people already there. You have to study your subject.”
“I place neither faith nor facts above the human, both must elevate human condition, or else both are equally redundant. History is full of people who were correct and cruel, history is full of people who were religious and animal.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.”
“I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.”
“I place stars instead of hearts in my night sky - yet my hearts griefs the same.”
“I place the blame with our own leaders who are not defending our interests. A strong euro is ruining our economy.”
“I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results