172 private quotes tagged sympathy

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.” — Edward Gibbon

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“I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.” — Lech Walesa

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“I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.” — Jared Leto

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“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.” — Henry Ossawa Tanner

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“I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.” — John Irving

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“I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.” — Alton Brown

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“I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.” — A. N. Wilson

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“Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.” — Louise J. Kaplan

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“I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.” — Lionel Blue

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“Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.” — Harry Browne

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“Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.” — Carl Hiaasen

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“I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.” — Hugh Mackay

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“I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.” — Richard Russo

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“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.” — Wislawa Szymborska

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“I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.” — Kate Smith

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“I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.” — Fritz Sauckel

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“I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.” — Conrad Black

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“I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.” — Daniel Johns

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“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

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“When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.” — Samantha Morton

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“If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.” — George Soros

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“Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.” — Bob Feller

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“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.” — Nellie Bly

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“He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.” — S. J. Perelman

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“I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.” — Major Taylor

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