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In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply… — George R. R. Martin
Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy. — Pete Gill
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as… — Peter Singer
I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage.… — Du Fu
You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy. — Frances Perkins
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding. — Mary Lou Retton
There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow merely thankful for belief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust… — Phillips Brooks
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. — James Martineau
Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so… — Anandamayi Ma
Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is… — Karl Rahner
There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality. — Harold S. Kushner
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be… — James Madison
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… — George Washington
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes,… — Anne Frank
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits… — Herman Melville
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and… — Lord Byron
Sympathy is no substitute for action. — David Livingstone
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need… — Albert Einstein
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on… — George Saunders
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with. — George Santayana

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