#pity

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

#had #instead #landed #landing #pilgrim

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#difficult #feel #feeling #hate #i

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#contempt #excite #fortune #more #pity

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. ↗

— Helen Keller

#enemy #never #our #self-pity #wise

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#concern #demands #giving #impersonal #little

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#celebrities #deep #destroyed #developed #everyone

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#idealist #idiot #pity #village #would

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. ↗

— Marat Safin

#down #drain #every #getting #going

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity. ↗

— Sallust

#consult #doubtful #friendship #hatred #matters

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#cannot #course #end #far #getting