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Nelson Mandela Quotes

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Nelson Mandela

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: south african
Birth: July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013

Topics

Future Hope Compassion Suffering Us

My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are.

Jimmy Kimmel

People Cursing Different Definition

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Maxwell Maltz

Opportunities You Crisis Will Stay

I think that, anybody with a strong will to tell a story, then that is fantastic. I think it's fantastic. I think sometimes people have what I'll call an ulterior motive with a story.

John Lee Hancock

People Story Strong Think Sometimes

I grew up in Florida, so every now and then, we'd have a garter snake in the lawn. But I'm not super okay with them.

Maulik Pancholy

Snake Now Okay Now And Then Florida

Recovery is really important.

Ana Ivanovic

Important Recovery Really

I knew from history that war comes with frightening regularity, often fought over the same ground and similar causes as previous conflicts.

Stanley A. McChrystal

History War Same Over Ground Knew

I've been offered private planes, and I'm like, 'No!'

Josh Groban

Been Like Planes Private Offered

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme

Father Mother Great Architecture She

The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me... No.

Johnny Vegas

Day People Me Seeing Real Being

I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

Colum McCann

Character Me Language You Page Know

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

Bobby Womack

Success Father Mother Better Living

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

William Wordsworth

Mind Acting Now Unknown Savage