#pity

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#blessings #due #efforts #life #love

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. ↗

— Olin Miller

#everyone #exactly #exchange #fellow #how

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

#constitutional #i #i think #many #mean

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#anything #compare #dreams #genius #imagine

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. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#am #because #choices #felt #giant

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. ↗

— Anne Rice

#beginning #best #catharsis #character #end

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. ↗

— Edwin A. Robinson

#having #knows #pity #played #she

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. ↗

— Stephen Vincent Benet

#honesty is #man #rare #self-pity #without

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead. ↗

— William Collins

#charm #dead #life #more #mourned

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

#fear #had #induce #inertia #love