One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The sky was always full of birdsong and evening smells, piano music from a window, the stone buildings glowing against the blue,… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Please dont cry. Im not really gone. When you look out the window. Ill be standing on the lawn. Please dont cry.… — Joe Green Copy Share Image
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members… — George Packer Copy Share Image
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems like I'm a noone I strive so hard to know my self I'm conffused I sill cannot see What makes… — TheShadowOfhell Copy Share Image
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder—how do we respond to our fellow humans when they break down in front of us? Do we recognize… — Kelli Russell Agodon Copy Share Image
We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health,… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
“There was an extravagant winter storm outside. The tinfoil sky flashed beyond the window, rattling in the frame, and once or twice… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The family came in to select the arrangements they wanted. The woman whose husband had died was struggling dearly to keep her… — Christian Millman Copy Share Image
“Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your… — Cassandra Rose Clarke Copy Share Image
Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! . . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right… — John Chivington Copy Share Image
