“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting… — Emily Giffin 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
I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are! You're the most impossible person to… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is… — Glen Duncan 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
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
