Quotes About Compassion

I'm more apt to shed a tear than my wife about family matters.

In 'Saami,' I take a poor dhobi's son for admission to a private school. The principal refuses for various reasons and finally he points to the boy's bare body. Immediately, I tear the furnishings off the office chair to convert them into clothes for the boy.

I don't know why people like to tear others down to make themselves feel better.

I think compassion is the only way to approach any subject, especially if it's to do with physical appearance. I don't think it's really about tearing something apart.

There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

We need a permanent solution to TPS recipients and develop a path to citizenship. And, more fundamentally, we need to ensure that our immigration policies treat those coming to this country with the dignity and compassion that should be afforded to all human beings and immediately stop tearing families apart.

I think we're very quick to rip other women apart when they don't fit our mold, which, quite frankly, is just as bad as a man tearing you down for something, if not worse.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until he could not see.

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Tears belong within the family.

A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.

I cry when I feel moved by incredible generosity or a connection to someone. We spend so much of our lives being separated. It's the relief of connection that produces the tears.

I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.