Well, I think “likability” is an overused word. I don’t watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they’re compelling.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic,… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more… — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
On a certain level, we don't try enough cases. We should try more cases before juries and let jurors decide. On grand… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well,… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
“A phenomenon known as sympathetic vomiting occurs when the sight of someone throwing up causes others to do so too. Such copycat… — Kathleen McAuliffe Copy Share Image
When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
You either hear the story and you're curious, and you're sort of sympathetic, or you think, "Ugh, how horrible." That's dehumanizing. How… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to the general form of Aristotle's view: the exercise of complex and more inclusive abilities is not anything in… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination… — William James Copy Share Image
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