Sympathetic Quotes · Page 10

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

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit.…

— Mark Twain

She'd been impressed by his looks at first--those sharply planed cheekbones and those black, fathomless eyes--but his affable, sympathetic personality grated on…

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Stephen Levine

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

— Edward Carpenter

To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful…

— Srinivasa Ramanujan

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

— James G. Frazer

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

— Gretchen Mol

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards…

— Andrew Motion

Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside,…

— Sara Shepard

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic…

— Jean Cocteau

Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we…

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Isadora Duncan

[St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic…

— Warren MacKenzie

I know that a lot of feminist fears about the trans movement have been, "Wait, we never got to the part where…

— Maggie Nelson

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

— Timur Bekmambetov

I am sympathetic to the kind of faith that does not evangelize or raise banners but is the faith drawn on by…

— Zia Haider Rahman

To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy…

— Dalai Lama

Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without…

— Mother Teresa

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

— Michael Strahan

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done…

— Randall Jarrell

Pre-suasion is the practice of getting people sympathetic to your message before they experience it.

— Robert Cialdini

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame…

— Camille Paglia

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor.…

— Florence King