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
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
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
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
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
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
We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
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 really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they… — Matthew Quick 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
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
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
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
I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder… — Marcus Aurelius 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
We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has.… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more… — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Copy Share Image
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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