3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 William James The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Nigella Lawson You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Fritz Sauckel I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
3 December 2020 Robert Browning Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
3 December 2020 Samuel Hopkins Adams We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
3 December 2020 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.
