Sympathetic Quotes · Page 5

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

— Steve Earle

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

— Isadora Duncan

“How sympathetic you look, Anne…as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.”

— L.M. Montgomery

A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.

— Anonymous

I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

— Joel Grey

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.

— Wayne Pacelle

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

— David Brooks

I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.

— Erykah Badu

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we…

— Anonymous

All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and…

— Scott Stossel

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions…

— Anonymous

At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much…

— Anonymous

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression…

— Anne Rice

A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult…

— John Allen Fraser

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of…

— Alison Weir

I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the…

— Joshua Ferris

Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is…

— Naomi Wolf

We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your…

— Jenny Downham

Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness…

— Stephen Levine

Women most certainly carry a more sympathetic heart in the traditional, classic sense the mother archetype. They have been given the role…

— Caroline Myss

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what…

— Northrop Frye

We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the…

— Carl Sagan

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate…

— Immanuel Kant

Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious…

— William J. Clinton

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best…

— Ludwig von Mises

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in…

— Adam Hochschild

I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it,…

— Mark T Bertolini

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

— Michael Strahan

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

— Anonymous

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

— Alexander Siddig

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

— Christopher Atkins

When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.

— Stephen Rodrick

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

— Gary Becker

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

— Peter Asher

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

— Hector Hugh Munro

Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove…

— Robert Redford