#suffers

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alone #believe #everyone #i #i do

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa. ↗

— Robert Smith

#clever #enough #few #good #idea

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them. ↗

— Alfred Sutro

#always #else #foolishness #our #pay

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#defiance #despair #done #god #greatest

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#discussed #first #friends #generally #i

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. ↗

— Hesiod

#bad man #city #deeds #even #man

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#child #ills #love #man #suffers

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#communicated #complex #considerable #distant #distortion

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#because #blockbuster #body #everything #getting

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by. ↗

— George Meredith

#may #nothing #profit #soul #suffers