Humor Compassion Quotes

#1. The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

Jane Hirshfield

#2. Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Theodore Sturgeon

#3. There's nothing colder than chemistry.

Anita Loos

#4. The confusing signals, the impurity of the signal, gives you verisimilitude, as when you attend a funeral and notice that it's being poorly done.

Donald Barthelme

#5. What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#6. In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

Kenny Marchant

#7. I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory.

Augusten Burroughs

#8. Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion towards poor Mr. Edward, who, she was sure, had quite doted upon the worthless hussy ...

Jane Austen

#9. Johan Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports.

David Winner

#10. You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it

Albert Einstein

#11. We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#12. We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.

George W. Bush

#13. Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion.

Bauvard

#14. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Maya Angelou

#15. The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

Maya Angelou

#16. My compassion was not dissimilar to gliding sandpaper over your ass.

Santino Hassell

#17. That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

Charles Eastman

#18. Kloo nodded at Lex in an indescribably maternal way, somehow cramming a lifetime of compassion, support, and tenderness all into one slight bounce of the head.

Gina Damico

#19. Help people.
Be interested.
Make a difference.
Live passionately.
Go comando.

Crystal Woods

#20. Spirit communicates through love, warmth, compassion, and humor. Our Loved Ones are happy, healthy, and thrilled to connect with us once again.

Paul Stefaniak

#21. As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

Criss Jami

#22. I'm passionate about stories that have humanity, compassion and humor.

Matthew Bonifacio

#23. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

Maya Angelou

#24. Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.

Jody Watley

#25. If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.

George Carlin

#26. I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

Dan Chaon

#27. It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly.

Joan Blondell