Sympathetic Quotes
237 quotes by 213 authors
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of…
— George Washington Carver
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I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic,…
— Lee Child
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Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own…
— Ed Koch
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets…
— William James
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There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she…
— Jung Chang
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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus...
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness.…
— Stephen Levine
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Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole!…
— Marcus Aurelius
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[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he…
— Immanuel Kant
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Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening…
— Berthold Auerbach
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How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love…
— Deacon Jones
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It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic…
— Albert Watson
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The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.…
— Albert Einstein
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I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible,…
— Jose Mujica
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My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners…
— George Washington
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