Top 12 The Compassionate Friends Quotes
#2. The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?
Anthony Daniels
#3. Not only had Mr. Butcavage's questions been reasonable, he also had an unfortunate name and no friends in his neighborhood. He was probably a lonely person like her mother, and Pip felt helplessly compassionate toward anyone who reminded her of her mother.
Jonathan Franzen
#4. When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.
Bitsie Tulloch
#5. The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.
Diablo Cody
#6. Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.
Julia Cameron
#7. Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
Stanley Tucci
#8. In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist."
Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#9. I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I'm not a vegan for health reasons - although obviously I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that's true. But I'm a vegan for compassionate reasons.
Russell Simmons
#10. Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
Philip Larkin
#11. Fine manners are like personal beauty,
a letter of credit everywhere.
C. A. Bartol
#12. A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.
Shannon L. Alder