Sympathetic Quotes

237 Sympathetic quotes by 206 unique authors

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt.… — George Carlin
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they… — Philip Roth
I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but… — Julie Anne Peters
Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that… — Matthew Quick
Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say… — Jenny Downham
Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age. — Ann Brashares
...I have to tell you that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of spending the rest of my life sleeping next to somebody… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person.… — Keith Haring
And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over… — Jonathan Stroud
You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But it’s kind of… — Sarah Dessen
Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the… — Erin Hunter
I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places.… — Jean Webster
... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just… — Zadie Smith
There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup,… — Peggy Orenstein
You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other people. He might have hated me, but… — Catherine Jinks
Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to… — Ruskin Bond
The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who… — Dale Carnegie
People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is… — Matthew Quick
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. — Sophie Kinsella
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the… — Rod Serling
If businesses are to redeem themselves in the eyes of the public and regain the trust that they have lost, they should worry a lot… — Unknown Author
We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic… — W. E. B. Du Bois
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. — Jean Cocteau
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

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