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
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
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
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
I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Don't try and mimic men - how they operate, how they do business, how they direct, write or are creative. They are… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies… — Paul Bloom 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
Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we… — Elizabeth Inchbald Copy Share Image
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener—… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have… — John Hawley Copy Share Image
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her… — Jung Chang 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
Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as… — Donnie Wahlberg 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
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience. — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image.… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies. — Rene Balcer 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
As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image