A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.
I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
