The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
It's a pity I have been stereotyped as a villain.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
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.
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.
Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
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.
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
