You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered. — Marc Rich Copy Share Image
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind …. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first job is to… — George Packer Copy Share Image
A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Quelquefois, il y a des sympathies si réelles que, se rencontrant pour la première fois, on semble se retrouver.” — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Michael Brown. As I have said in… — Robert P. McCulloch Copy Share Image
“The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“In one's own home it is as if little, innate sympathies draw one to particular chairs that seem to enfold one in… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“If you started to care someone it does n't mean that you have crush on him or her but you can name… — A Layman Copy Share Image
My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You are right in your consciousness that we are all echoes and reverberations of the same, and you are noble when your… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. — B. R. Hayden Copy Share Image
My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography. — Jerome Liebling Copy Share Image
It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
