Pastoral Resources

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

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

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

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

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

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.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

Pity is treason.

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

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.