Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
“The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It’s not a matter of learning techniques to “make friends and influence… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio.… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word… — Chris Mars Copy Share Image
“I feel jerked around. I feel sympathetic. I feel abused. It's almost harder to see Nathaniel on the good days than the… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal… — Timothy Keller 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
“Being depressed is one thing when your life can be seen by outsiders as justifiably hard, but it is a whole different… — Boyd Varty Copy Share Image
If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
At Silicon Valley, I'm extremely sympathetic to the revolutionary response. I not only agree with it emotionally. I agree with it practically.… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
My mind goes really quickly and I tend to talk really fast, as you've probably heard, I sometimes lose track of my… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all.… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Above all, there was Almah. Everything combined to make her most dear to me. My life has been such that I never… — James De Mille Copy Share Image
And he [Franklin Roosevelt] got the votes of every southern white voting state in the country and wouldn't have been elected president… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people.… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Every single means of communication amongst the public, the government has antennae into, to find out who is liable to be sympathetic… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
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