Sympathetic Quotes
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I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.
— Lydia Lunch
He's a pagan! I'm an artist! We're naturally sympathetic!
— Sidney Howard
We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.
— Gloria Steinem
There are no more sympathetic souls than strangers. So,
— Amor Towles
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
— Rene Balcer
When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.
— Stephen Rodrick
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
— Alexandre Dumas
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
— Joyce Carol Oates
There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.
— Peter T. King
To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.
— Joseph Glanvill
To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
— Ronald Firbank
The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.
— Sharon Salzberg
A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.
— John Allen Fraser
The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.
— Timur Bekmambetov
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
— Pablo Picasso
There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.
— Alexander Siddig
Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Shy" was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. "Snotty" was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
— Ann Brashares
She was poised and sympathetic, like a girl who'd just come from the future but didn't want to brag about it.
— Helen Oyeyemi
And it was difficult to imagine what answer Earth could possibly send, except a tactfully sympathetic, "Good-bye.
— Arthur C. Clarke
There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.
— John Ernst Worrell Keely
We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.
— Lionel Shriver
This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
— Ralph Nader
The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus ...
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.
— Donal Logue
The first step in helping a suffering person is to acknowledge that the pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.
— Philip Yancey
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
— Sophie Kinsella
What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.
— Erykah Badu
Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.
— Dale Carnegie
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
— Steve Earle
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
— Richard Dawkins
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.
— Margaret Thatcher
I'm not a sympathetic main character. My quirks are not lovable. I am not clumsy. I am not overwhelmed by life. I am not unlucky in love.
— Rahul Kanakia
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
— Sharon Salzberg
'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.
— Annalee Newitz
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
— Edward Carpenter
It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.
— Louise Erdrich
I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
— Michael Caine
His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.
— H.W. Brands
Stop Sympathising. Start Visualising.
— Manoj Arora
To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.
— Sharon Salzberg
My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.
— Sheldon Lee Glashow
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
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
— George Saunders
He made a sympathetic shrug, then spread his hands. Flexibility, my friend. Flexibility is the key to all happiness. Remember that.
— Robert Crais
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
Woof," he said sadly. "Poor Hound," said Batty. "Poor Hound, indeed." Mr. Penderwick was not sympathetic. "Even he should know not to eat towels.
— Jeanne Birdsall
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
— Lindsay Duncan
The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.
— Frederick Lenz
The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.
— Sharon Salzberg
I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.
— Christopher Atkins
Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
— Dale Carnegie
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
— Joyce Carol Oates
What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.
— Roald Dahl
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
— Gary Becker
A friend indeed is supportive, patient, understanding, sympathetic, caring and loving.
— Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela
Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.
— Rudolf Steiner
The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.
— Andrew O'Hagan
It is not enough to be loving, you have to be sympathetic, kind, caring, and compassionate.
— Debasish Mridha
Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.
— J. Sidlow Baxter
Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.
— Cecily Von Ziegesar
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
— Woodrow Wilson
I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.
— Len Wein
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.
— Sonya Hartnett
The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.
— Rudolf Steiner
A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.
— Mason Cooley
A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person's thoughts, feelings, and desires.
— Gary Chapman
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
— Damien Chazelle
