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“It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.”

Writing Whole Lying Values Turns Social Existence Compassion Moral Vision Class Middle Pity Middle Class Feminine Honour Sympathy Spheres Centre Humanitarianism Confined Upper Class

Author:Terry Eagleton

“I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.”

Knows World Mean Hard Running Sadness And Love Caught Pity Destroyed Plastic Deep Sadness

Author:Karen Kingsbury

“It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.”

Men Self Able Suffering Christ Accepting Our Lives Hero Cease Pity Planes Self Pity

Author:Corazon Aquino

“Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.”

World Problem Government Political Challenges Class Painful Pity Britain Massive Preparing

Author:Vince Cable

“I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.”

People Names Doors Heard Advantage Meetings Pity Modeling

Author:Brooklyn Decker

“Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.”

People Way Mean Feelings Courses Compassion Sorry Pity Feeling Sorry

Author:Karen Armstrong

“It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.”

Thinking I Can Felt Enjoy Capacity Disappear Pity Spectators Mixing

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.”

Reality Can Do Towns Pity

Author:Gene Pitney

“When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.”

Men Littles Has Beens Bigs Reality Cities Pity Could Have Been Big Cities

Author:Elvis Presley

“Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.”

Inspirational Turns Ambition Pity

Author:Coolio

“[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.”

Humans Science Father Dying Ocean Photograph Invention Pity Estates Our Father Steam Cheated Telegraph Galvanism

Book:Society and Solitude and Other Essays

Source: Society and Solitude and Other Essays

“Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him. Footnote: Carlyle says, in his History of Frederick the Great, book ii. chap. vii. that this saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, 'that it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice,' is still remembered by mankind, - this and no other of his many sayings.”

Stills Book Science Universe Given Taken Advice Mankind Creation Models Machines Creator Astronomy Pity Remembered Complexity Hints Great Book Crank Chaps Footnotes

Author:Alfonso X of Castile

“Have pity on a dinosaur.”

Politics Pity Dinosaurs

Author:Hank Williams, Jr.

“The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.”

Ifs Fall House Doors Stranger Pity Falling Down Adages

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.”

People Ifs Men Lasts Fall Loss Silence Fool Kings Understood Tales Pity Bitter Wicked Doom Scorned

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

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