Famous Quotes
- 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 on Sympathy
- No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
- Pierre Corneille on Sympathy
- Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Sympathy
- Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
- Edward Gibbon on Sympathy
- Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
- Orison Swett Marden on Sympathy
- People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
- Ann Landers on Sympathy
- Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
- Henry Cabot Lodge on Sympathy
- Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder on Sympathy
- September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
- 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 on Sympathy
- Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
- Thomas Aquinas on Sympathy
- Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
- Victor Hugo on Sympathy
- Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
- Joni Mitchell on Sympathy
- Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Sympathy
- Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Sympathy
- Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
- Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
- Lillie Langtry on Sympathy
- Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
- Bob Feller on Sympathy
- Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
- Henri Frederic Amiel on Sympathy
- Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
- Charles Henry Parkhurst on Sympathy
- Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
- Francis Herbert Hedge on Sympathy
- Tears are the silent language of grief.
- Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
- W. H. Davies on Sympathy
- That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
- William Wordsworth on Sympathy
- The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
- William James on Sympathy
- The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
- Barbara Sher on Sympathy
- The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
- James Russell Lowell on Sympathy
- The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
- Irving Babbitt on Sympathy
- The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
- Malcolm Forbes on Sympathy
- The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
- Washington Irving on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- The only cure for grief is action.
- George Henry Lewes on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Sympathy
- The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
- Irving Babbitt on Sympathy
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
- Dante Alighieri on Sympathy
- There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Sympathy
- There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
- There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
- Oscar Wilde on Sympathy
- There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
- William E. Gladstone on Sympathy
- 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.
- There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
- Seth Green on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
- Jean Giraudoux on Sympathy
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