Pity Quotes - Page 12

Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.

The internet has made it possible to meet more people, make more connections and do more interesting work than would ever have been possible . It enables serendipity at an entirely new scale.

It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence.

Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me, I want to work with serendipity and things we happened upon. That's our job, that's what the form demands.

I think it's often easier to theorize in the official codes of theory rather than to theorize lightly through scene, object, story, and incident in ways that keeps alive the sensual serendipities of language. This is not a question of being for or against theory, but rather of being suspicious of orthodoxies that concede, in advance, that what passes for theory must be signaled by a narrowing of diction, sentence rhythms, and sensual awareness. I'm in favor of surprise.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

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.

Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.

It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

Pity drowns in numbers.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

Pity is a corroding thing.

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.