Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
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
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
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic.… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that… — Philip Roth 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
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage. — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
