Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
“I have a funny side. I have a soft and sympathetic side. I have a serious side, and a seriously romantic side.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic,… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part,… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a… — Pope Francis 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
It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Your concern & sympathetic attitude will have far reaching effect on moral of down & out people.Be concerned.Be sympathetic. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop… — George W. Bush 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
“These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. — Ted Dexter Copy Share Image
Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding… — Max Dupain Copy Share Image
I first start with weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, be sympathetic, show tenderness and brotherly kindness. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act. — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart;… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed. — John Ernst Worrell Keely Copy Share Image
Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
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