Showing posts with label sympathy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sympathy. Show all posts

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Quote of the Day for 2015-12-26


"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) Speech at the Southern Commercial Congress in Mobile, Alabama, October 27, 1913

People on line around a spontaneous memorial of snow covered flowers and candles in front of the French embassy in Moscow, waiting to sign books of condolences to the French people (November 15, 2015 — Photograph by Stolbovsky)

Friday, September 04, 2015

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-04


"Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity"

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) "On Vulgarity and Affectation," Table-Talk, volume 1

Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman
Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman