172 private quotes tagged sympathy

“My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.” — Brownie McGhee

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“California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?” — Denis Kearney

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“I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.” — Billy Tauzin

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“I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.” — Shinzo Abe

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“You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.” — Laura Carmichael

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“This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.” — Tom Paulin

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“It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.” — Alan Hovhaness

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“I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.” — Mary Beth Whitehead

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“Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.” — Stafford Cripps

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“The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.” — Anthony Storr

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“I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.” — Joe Cornish

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“IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.” — Carl Clinton Van Doren

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“Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.” — Mark Feuerstein

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“Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.” — Angelina Grimke

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“More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.” — John Hall

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“Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.” — W. H. Davies

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“There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.” — Les Aspin

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“It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.” — Alfred E. Smith

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“I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.” — Peter Storey

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“Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.” — William Hull

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“You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.” — Haruki Murakami

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“I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.” — Charles Trevelyan

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“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” — Robert Browning

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“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 his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.” — George Saunders

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