172 private quotes tagged sympathy

“Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.” — Ben Elton

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“It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.” — F. H. Bradley

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“Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.” — Ivor Novello

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“Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.” — Juliette Gordon Low

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“Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.” — Erich von Stroheim

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“The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.” — Goldwin Smith

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“Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.” — Harold Bloom

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“I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.” — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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“Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.” — Gary Ackerman

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“I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.” — Alex Ferguson

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“But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.” — Hjalmar Schacht

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“I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.” — Anson Mount

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“I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.” — Tim Kaine

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“My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.” — Agnes Smedley

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“I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.” — Terry Prachett

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“Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.” — Eamon de Valera

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“I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.” — Tom Perrotta

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“A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.” — Morris Raphael Cohen

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“They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.” — Audrey Meadows

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“Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!” — David Chalmers

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“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.” — Frances E. Willard

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“We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.” — Mohammed Morsi

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“There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.” — Michael Ealy

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“Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.” — Francis Herbert Hedge

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“I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.” — John Burns

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