The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Some people just need a sympathetic pat... on the head… with a hammer... — James Merrow Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,” — Sir Hall Caine Copy Share Image
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense. — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and… — Colin Thubron Copy Share Image
The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli,… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect,… — J. Boone Copy Share Image
I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy,… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
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
[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 Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
The hour on stage is rarely a drag. In fact, I can't really say that its ever a drag. The few times… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the time, the studio system is so compelled to kowtow to its fear that women are not… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other people. He might have… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are. — Gretchen Mol Copy Share Image
Pre-suasion is the practice of getting people sympathetic to your message before they experience it. — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
“All our social-media feeds produce is a one-sided sympathetic stress reaction, day after day.” — Richard Beck Copy Share Image
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