Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.
There’s a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious 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.
My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.
I can’t understand why someone wouldn’t have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
This circus that’s advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.
It’s no good being nice and young and naive. There’s no good in that at all. You’ve got to do it all yourself, and you’ve gotta learn quick. And you can’t look for sympathy either.
Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
I’m not looking for sympathy at all.
AI don’t make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don’t preach; you tell the story.
When you’re successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It’s too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don’t have a lot of sympathy for because I’m just going to be with them too long.
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
What’s interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time – a place of sympathy.
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have 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.
I’d lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.
I’m not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who’s going to win, and I’m not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who’s going to lose.
A lot of people who end up being horrible criminals when they are adults had very abusive childhoods. You can have sympathy for that child. It does not at all, under any circumstances, diminish their responsibility for what they do.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.
