Famous Quotes
- 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 on Sympathy
- A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
- William R. Alger on Sympathy
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
- Irving Babbitt on Sympathy
- A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson on Sympathy
- According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.
- John Buchanan Robinson on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Sympathy
- Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Sympathy
- Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
- David Chalmers on Sympathy
- And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
- Walt Whitman on Sympathy
- Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe on Sympathy
- Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
- George William Russell on Sympathy
- Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
- Robert Browning on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
- 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 on Sympathy
- Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.
- Jesse Jackson on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
- Anne Sullivan on Sympathy
- Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
- Louise J. Kaplan on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
- Evelyn Underhill on Sympathy
- Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
- Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
- William Blake on Sympathy
- Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Sympathy
- Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Sympathy
- Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
- Keanu Reeves on Sympathy
- Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
- Anne Grant on Sympathy
- Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
- James Martineau on Sympathy
- Grief is the price we pay for love.
- Queen Elizabeth II on Sympathy
- Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
- Alphonse De Lamartine on Sympathy
- Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
- Marcel Proust on Sympathy
- He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
- S. J. Perelman on Sympathy
- Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
- Thomas More on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
- Dorothy Day on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
- Terry Prachett on Sympathy
- I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
- Anson Mount on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
- Joe Cornish on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?
- Clyde Tombaugh on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.
- Mary Beth Whitehead on Sympathy
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