Author | Quote | Rank |
---|
Angelina Grimke | Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. | 101 |
Hilaire Belloc | Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. | 101 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder | Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. | 101 |
Norman Cousins | Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. | 101 |
Quintus Ennius | Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. | 101 |
Donald Cargill | Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ. | 101 |
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog. | 101 |
George William Norris | Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. | 101 |
Henry Austin Dobson | What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers! | 101 |
Jared Leto | I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away. | 101 |
Laura Carmichael | You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them. | 101 |
William Hull | Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer. | 101 |
Clyde Tombaugh | I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living? | 101 |
Peter Asher | In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions. | 101 |
Les Aspin | There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous. | 101 |
Steven Erikson | All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists. | 101 |
Charles Trevelyan | I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals. | 101 |
Joe Cornish | I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake. | 101 |
Anne Sullivan | Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. | 102 |
Corrie Ten Boom | Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. | 102 |
Dave Reichert | At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service. | 102 |
Irving Babbitt | A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. | 102 |
Keanu Reeves | Grief changes shape, but it never ends. | 102 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. | 102 |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich | What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness. | 102 |
W. H. Davies | Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. | 102 |
Mohammed Morsi | We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom. | 102 |
Robert Southey | The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. | 102 |
Anna Akana | When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that. | 102 |
Charles Henry Parkhurst | Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. | 102 |
James Martineau | Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. | 102 |
Emily Dickinson | Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. | 103 |
Dante Alighieri | There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. | 103 |
Meister Eckhart | Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. | 103 |
Cristiano Ronaldo | When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. | 103 |
Ivor Novello | Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere. | 103 |
Jesse Jackson | Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. | 103 |
Robert Browning | Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. | 103 |
Shakuntala Devi | You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot. | 103 |
Tara Brach | If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. | 103 |
Corita Kent | Flowers grow out of dark moments. | 103 |
Frances E. Willard | In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion. | 103 |
Helmut Kohl | We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people. | 103 |
Dirk Benedict | Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. | 103 |
Ted Olson | You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. | 103 |
Peter Storey | I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg. | 103 |
Stafford Cripps | Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy. | 103 |
Susan Bysiewicz | I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable. | 103 |
Anne Grant | Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. | 103 |
Archibald Hill | Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world. | 103 |
Thomas Aquinas | Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. | 104 |
Faye Wattleton | This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it. | 104 |
Michael Gove | Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children. | 104 |
Moliere | If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. | 104 |
Xenophon | Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. | 104 |
Louise J. Kaplan | Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. | 104 |
Steven Curtis Chapman | As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us. | 104 |
Evelyn Underhill | Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. | 104 |
Francis Herbert Hedge | Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion. | 104 |
Henry Ossawa Tanner | Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. | 104 |
Edwin Morgan | Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view. | 104 |
Carl Clinton Van Doren | IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. | 104 |
Thomas Ligotti | I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world. | 104 |
John Kendrew | Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian. Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog. | 104 |
Queen Elizabeth II | Grief is the price we pay for love. | 105 |
Dorothy Day | I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. | 105 |
George MacDonald | When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. | 105 |
Haruki Murakami | You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you. | 105 |
Iain McGilchrist | In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category. | 105 |
Paul Haggis | I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl. | 105 |
Juliette Gordon Low | Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them. | 105 |
Alexei Navalny | When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. | 105 |
Richard Lewis | If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody. | 105 |
Mark Feuerstein | Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due. | 105 |
John Burns | I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. | 105 |
John Hall | More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. | 105 |
Albert Schweitzer | The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. | 106 |
Agnes Smedley | My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners. | 106 |
Anthony Storr | The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy. | 106 |
Brownie McGhee | My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else. | 106 |
Randa Abdel-Fattah | The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable. | 106 |
Trai Byers | Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it? | 106 |
Al Smith | It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy. | 106 |
Simone de Beauvoir | One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. | 107 |
Emma Goldman | No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. | 107 |
Pliny the Elder | From the end spring new beginnings. | 107 |
William E. Gladstone | There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. | 107 |
Anne Graham Lotz | I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.' | 107 |
Wild Bill Hickok | This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time. | 107 |
S. J. Perelman | He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it. | 107 |
Michael Ealy | There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that. | 107 |
Albert II of Belgium | Queen Paola and I will never forget the ties that have grown between the people and us during the course of the years. Thank you for your confidence, tokens of sympathy and support, sometimes even with a little criticism. We always loved you. | 107 |
Homer | A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. | 108 |
Alton Brown | I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't. | 108 |
Chiang Kai-shek | In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense. | 108 |
Morrie Schwartz | Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again. | 108 |
Regina Brett | Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story. | 108 |
Ben Elton | Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. | 108 |
Shinzo Abe | I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them. | 108 |
Daniel Johns | I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me. | 108 |
Goldwin Smith | The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. | 108 |
Anson Mount | I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear. | 108 |
Jonas Gahr Store | Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies. | 108 |
Ivan Turgenev | To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. | 109 |
Joni Mitchell | Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. | 109 |
Lech Walesa | I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. | 109 |
Morrie Schwartz | After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left. | 109 |
Nigella Lawson | You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. | 109 |
Barbara Sher | The cure for sorrow is to learn something. | 109 |
William R. Alger | A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. | 109 |
Billy Tauzin | I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion. | 109 |
Denis Kearney | California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance? | 109 |
Dave Reichert | I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. | 110 |
Davy Crockett | We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. | 110 |
Edward Norton | I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. | 110 |
F. H. Bradley | It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. | 110 |
Samantha Morton | When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that. | 110 |
Alan Hovhaness | It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. | 110 |
James Nachtwey | If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. | 110 |
Billy Graham | No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. | 111 |
George Henry Lewes | The only cure for grief is action. | 111 |
George Saunders | Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth. | 111 |
Nellie Bly | It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world. | 111 |
Wislawa Szymborska | I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. | 111 |
John Irving | It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them. | 111 |
Alphonse de Lamartine | Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. | 111 |
Erich von Stroheim | Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right. | 111 |
Jean Giraudoux | Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. | 111 |
Lillie Langtry | Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. | 111 |
Mary Beth Whitehead | I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away. | 111 |
Tom Paulin | This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat. | 111 |
Major Taylor | I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. | 111 |
Matthew Scully | The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats. | 111 |
Queen Elizabeth II | To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. | 112 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. | 112 |
Robert Gottlieb | The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. | 112 |
Hjalmar Schacht | But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. | 112 |
Tom Perrotta | I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes. | 112 |
Matthew Scully | To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests. | 112 |
Aeschylus | There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. | 113 |
David Duchovny | I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring. | 113 |
Harold Bloom | Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. | 113 |
Jim Gaffigan | Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides. | 113 |
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi | I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy. | 113 |
Gary Ackerman | Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public. | 113 |
Richard Russo | I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long. | 113 |
Florence Nightingale | Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. | 115 |
Marie Curie | Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life. | 115 |
Chiang Kai-shek | My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot. | 115 |
Irving Babbitt | The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. | 115 |
James Russell Lowell | The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. | 115 |
Agatha Christie | I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. | 116 |
Ann Landers | People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. | 116 |
Elaine Pagels | I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some. | 116 |
Eamon de Valera | Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. | 116 |
A. N. Wilson | I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them. | 116 |
David Chalmers | Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! | 116 |
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo | Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the reasons we look at India with a lot of sympathy and enthusiasm is Sonia Gandhi. Now she is Indian, not Italian, but she will always represent a myth for Italians. | 116 |
Aneurin Bevan | I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. | 117 |
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them. | 117 |
George Soros | If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems. | 117 |
Lionel Blue | I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls. | 117 |
Rory Stewart | As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them. | 117 |
William Wordsworth | That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. | 118 |
Niall Ferguson | Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie. | 118 |
Vincent Nichols | In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings. | 118 |
Fritz Sauckel | I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before. | 118 |
George William Russell | The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. | 118 |
Jerome K. Jerome | It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. | 118 |
Jim Brown | AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story. | 118 |
Morris Raphael Cohen | A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. | 118 |
Seth Green | There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate. | 118 |
Alex Ferguson | I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries. | 119 |
Kate Smith | I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine. | 119 |
Thomas Mallon | The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel. | 119 |
Thomas Moore | Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. | 119 |
Bob Feller | Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. | 119 |
Hugh Mackay | I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. | 119 |
Lucy Larcom | What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about? | 119 |
Stephen Rodrick | There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy. | 119 |
John Buchanan Robinson | According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek. | 119 |
George Saunders | I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar. | 120 |
Paul Harris | Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. | 120 |
Desmond Tutu | I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. | 121 |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. | 121 |
Marlo Thomas | I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. | 121 |
George William Russell | Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. | 121 |
Saint Augustine | What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. | 122 |
Eric Schlosser | One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends. | 122 |
Harry Browne | Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources. | 122 |
Irving Babbitt | The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. | 122 |
Michael Eric Dyson | Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes. | 122 |
Marcel Proust | Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. | 123 |
Tim Kaine | I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose. | 123 |
Gayle Forman | In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it. | 123 |
Conrad Black | I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. | 124 |
William Butler Yeats | Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. | 125 |
Tim Crouch | It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world. | 125 |
Malcolm Forbes | The more sympathy you give, the less you need. | 126 |
Nina Easton | To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance. | 201 |
Chiang Kai-shek | Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people. | 203 |
Edward Gibbon | Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. | 203 |
William Wordsworth | Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. | 204 |
Jean Paul | There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. | 204 |
Confucius | We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. | 205 |
Ovid | Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. | 205 |
Washington Irving | The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. | 206 |
Henry Cabot Lodge | Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well. | 207 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. | 208 |
Orison Swett Marden | Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. | 209 |
Jillian Michaels | I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible. | 209 |
Max Beerbohm | You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. | 209 |
W. E. B. Du Bois | Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. | 211 |
Joseph Addison | I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. | 211 |
Richard Corliss | Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore. | 211 |
Stephen Rodrick | NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians. | 213 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. | 214 |
Martin O'Malley | Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves. | 214 |
Henry Rollins | It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. | 215 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson | A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. | 215 |
John Rhys-Davies | I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible. | 215 |
Pierre Corneille | One often calms one's grief by recounting it. | 216 |
Terry Pratchett | I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. | 217 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. | 217 |
Robert Dallek | In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine. | 217 |
Voltaire | Tears are the silent language of grief. | 218 |
Robert Baden-Powell | The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy. | 218 |
Dirk Benedict | If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. | 218 |
Richard M. Nixon | We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. | 220 |
William Blake | Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. | 220 |
Woodrow Wilson | Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. | 220 |
Rick Riordan | I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading. | 221 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. | 221 |
Mariella Frostrup | Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy. | 221 |
Robbie Robertson | Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do. | 221 |
Anne Hathaway | I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy. | 222 |
Carl Hiaasen | Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. | 223 |
Terry Eagleton | It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. | 223 |
John Irving | I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. | 224 |
Walt Whitman | And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. | 225 |
Robert Baden-Powell | True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them. | 225 |
Tom Ford | September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. | 225 |
Havelock Ellis | If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. | 302 |
Alex Rodriguez | It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it's obviously not healthy. The last thing I'm looking for is sympathy. | 302 |
Joshua Oppenheimer | In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims. | 302 |
Justin Cartwright | Personally, I have detested Gordon Brown since the moment in 2001 when he tried to make cheap capital out of the Laura Spence affair; as his troubles have piled up, I have felt no sympathy for him at all. | 302 |
George M. Church | I'm a champion for personal differences. I have no sympathy for drug companies that can't figure out how to make personalized medicine. We could generalize that to 'All society should be much more personalized.' | 303 |
Rachel McAdams | With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings. | 303 |
Charles M. Schwab | Labor should be recognized as entitled to consult with management in the mutual interest. Labor cannot be driven, and business cannot be successful unless the men employed in it are enthusiastic and loyal. That loyalty cannot be obtained with a big stick; it must be based upon fair dealing and sympathy. | 304 |
John Burroughs | Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind. | 304 |
James D. Watson | Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog. | 304 |
John Lydon | It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either. | 305 |
Julianne Moore | My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort. | 305 |
Darin Strauss | I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy. | 307 |
Khalil Gibran | When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. | 308 |
Edmund White | AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s. | 308 |
Henri Frederic Amiel | Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. | 308 |
Julian Fellowes | A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. | 309 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. | 311 |
William Shakespeare | When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. | 312 |
Jeff Duncan | I have sympathy for the people in Syria, and I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously. | 312 |
Joyce Carol Oates | I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. | 313 |
Hugh Jackman | I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one. | 314 |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. | 315 |
Eric Holder | Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told. | 317 |
Alan Rickman | I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel. | 319 |
William James | The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. | 321 |
Felix Dennis | As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true. | 323 |
Oscar Wilde | There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. | 324 |
Chuck Palahniuk | We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. | 324 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. | 324 |
Victor Hugo | Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. | 326 |
Angela Merkel | We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that. | 326 |
Siri Hustvedt | It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant. | 406 |
Gail Collins | Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar. | 409 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. | 412 |
Lord Byron | The dew of compassion is a tear. | 412 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | I'm not looking for sympathy at all. | 415 |
Dick Cavett | I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds. | 415 |
William Godwin | Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another. | 416 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. | 417 |
P. J. O'Rourke | Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. | 418 |
George Eliot | Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. | 419 |
George Packer | Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know. | 421 |
Maajid Nawaz | Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it. | 422 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. | 426 |
Jillian Michaels | The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all. | 502 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. | 518 |
Henry David Thoreau | It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. | 601 |
John Updike | In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity. | 604 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy. | 705 |
Rush Limbaugh | I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way. | 714 |
Oscar Wilde | If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. | 723 |
Donald Trump | I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. | 724 |
George Bernard Shaw | The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy. | 813 |
The script ran 0.014 seconds.