Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
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.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it’s merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.
‘Ninnu Kori’ urges us to take a broader view of life, look past stumbling blocks, and rise above self sympathy.
You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
I think that Jamal Khashoggi was an enemy of the state, and I don’t really think that it’s appropriate for American media institutions to be, you know, trying to generate sympathy. He’s not a hero.
It was only on sympathy wave had KCR won the elections in 2014 and became the chief minister.
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom.
I have deep sympathy with the hundreds of my constituents who fear that legislation for same-sex marriage will profoundly encroach – although this may be unintended – on their right to live according to their faith.
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave – and nothing but laughter to console them with.
Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they’re not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.
Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we’re invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
I’ve always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it’s been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you’ve given something planetary status it’s kind of mean to take it away.
For reasons historic, aesthetic, and political, we Jews are most attuned to the anti-Semitism of the far Right – and we find the most sympathy among our progressive allies when these are our attackers.
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I’ve always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people’s salaries.
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
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?
I don’t think it’s an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it’s much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.
