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Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.
Catherine McAuley
Love
Matter
Feeling
Difficult
Our
Able
Shall
He
Wishes
Look
How
Accomplish
May
Oh
Pity
Anything
Then
Us
Painful
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Charles Dickens
Change
Three
Half
Society
Slight
Sigh
General
Small
Head
Sort
Accompanied
Pity
Which
Two
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
Chauncey Depew
Fathers
Plymouth
Had
Instead
Pilgrim
Rock
Pity
Landed
Landing
We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.
Cherie Blair
Women
Society
Tools
Worse
Financially
All Women
Seeing
Give
Objects
Both
Shame
Support
Empower
Families
Pity
Them
Themselves
Even
Even Worse
Assets
Socially
Start
Need
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
Chris Van Allsburg
Christmas
Culture
Old
Our
Percentage
Only
Fact
Mythic
True
True Believers
Most
Years
Truly
Eight
Pity
Santa
Figure
Large
Population
Large Percentage
Believed
Believers
I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn't matter. It's boring. I don't have any anger about it.
Claude Picasso
Me
Anger
Matter
Father
Think
Pleasure
Out
Boring
Seeing
About
Something
He
Missed
Him
Up
Any
Pity
Grow
Grow Up
I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.
David Duchovny
Work
Beautiful
Me
World
Most Beautiful
Three
Weeks
Had
Almost
Most
Pity
Ski
When I am in the ring, all I think about is knocking my opponent's head off, getting him out of there. Hurting him. Putting pain to him. I will have no mercy. I will have no pity.
Deontay Wilder
Will
Mercy
Pain
Think
Out
Ring
Hurting
About
Head
Putting
Knocking
Him
Am
Opponent
Off
Getting
Pity
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Love
Anger
Hate
Our
Silent
Contempt
Leaves
Hearts
Pity
Against
Ashamed
Us
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg
Love
Fear
Men
Young
Virtue
Machine
Machines
Had
Induce
Inertia
Pernicious
Effect
Pity
Which
Young Men
Used
Near
I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.
Ehud Olmert
Myself
Needs
Morning
People
Energy
Focused
Mission
For The People
Period
Am
Israel
Up
Pat
Get
Done
Pity
Fulfill
Shoulder
Full
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
Hope
Impossible
Selfishness
Forlorn
Pity
Lovers
Brief
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.
Ernst Toller
Day
Heroes
Wax
Kings
Unreality
Horrors
Had
Fair
Look
Annual
Dead
Without
Boy
Go
Shocks
Same
Pity
Which
Used
Figures
Now
Chamber
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
Ferdinand Mount
People
Same Thing
Think
Minds
Constitutional
Come
Reform
Same
Pity
Mean
Much
Many
Thing
I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.
Frank McCourt
Made
Possible
Self
He
Stuff
Knocking
Joyce
Him
Self-Pity
Moaning
Debt
Owe
Want
Wanted
Literary
Pity
Much
Avoid
Who
Portrait
I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.
Graham Elliot
Work
Me
People
Some
Take
Pity
In the media, from the little bit that I have read... there's not a lot of pity. There are some people, usually older people who have been around or people who really know basketball. Other people in the media are usually like, 'Well, stop getting injured.' You know, like I can control it.
Greg Oden
You
People
Some People
Control
Older
Other
Bit
Some
Like
Know
Well
Read
Around
Been
Lot
Getting
Stop
Pity
Little
Little Bit
Really
Who
Media
Injured
Older People
Basketball
It's always a pity to lose or draw at the end of the game; it's always painful.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Game
Lose
Draw
Always
End
Pity
Painful
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
Ivan Turgenev
Good
Strength
Feelings
Oppose
Petty
Those
Remorse
Egoism
Pity
Us
Who
Among
I never wanted anyone's pity.
Jake Weber
Never
Wanted
Anyone
Pity
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
James Agate
Me
Nothing
Never
Going
Pity
Now
Ever
I would be lying if I said if I didn't miss out on what normal teenagers do, of course. But I don't need pity for that.
Jamie Lynn Spears
Lying
Teenagers
Out
Would
Would-Be
Miss
Course
Said
Normal
Pity
Need
The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.
Janet Malcolm
Life
Death
Made
Our
Horror
Triviality
Mere
Journals
Contemporaries
Inescapable
Leave
Impressions
Die
Essential
Behind
Buried
Pity
Us
Reason
Letters
Biography
Kernel
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Others
Those
Evils
Ourselves
Only
Experienced
Pity
Which
Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
Jennifer Aniston
Myself
Party
Absolutely
Thrown
Days
Pity
Little
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
Joe Frazier
Win
Out
Brother
Go
Pity
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