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Quotes About Sympathy

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
~ Thomas Gray
When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.
~ Boy George
You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain't ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man's jaw with his fist.
~ Mr. T
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
~ Louise J. Kaplan
I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.
~ John C. Reilly
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
How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?
~ Robert Galbraith
Can I ask who you are, sir?" "Yeah, I expect so," said Strike, walking past him and ringing the doorbell. Anstis's dinner invitation notwithstanding, he was not feeling sympathetic to the police just now. "Should be just about within your capabilities.
~ Robert Galbraith
Lucy's idea of sympathy compared unfavorably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.
~ Robert Galbraith
Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.
~ Robert Galbraith
mine onely faithfull frend In heauy plight and sad perplexitie; Whereof I sorie, yet my selfe did bend, Him to recomfort with my companie. Edmund Spenser The
~ Robert Galbraith
She couldn't help but feel a certain vicarious embarrassment.
~ Robert Galbraith
They beamed at each other: for a moment, Robin thought she saw the idea of hugging her cross Strike's mind, but instead he held out his hand and shook hers.
~ Robert Galbraith
They were good friends, though they would never understand what lay inside of her, would not understand even if she told them.
~ Robert James Waller
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
What we understand and love understands and loves us also.
~ Robert Walser
Marian... turned her face at last; there were tear marks on it, and Robin felt a pricking behind his own eyes, that Marian should cry over him.
~ Robin McKinley
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.
~ Rod Serling
Smith emphasized that trust, responsibility and accountability exist only in a society that respects them, and only where the spontaneous fruit of human sympathy is allowed to ripen. It is where sympathy, duty and virtue achieve their proper place that self-interest leads, by an invisible hand, to a result that benefits everyone.
~ Roger Scruton
Hence we inevitably see ourselves from outside, as others see us, and seek for their approval and sympathy, which is the greatest of social goods.
~ Roger Scruton
I am not unmindful of your thought processes as you speak. I feel the pain in your side, twin to my own. Yes, I know these things and more.
~ Roger Zelazny
giving him more generous sympathy than he received in return
~ Ron Chernow
giving him more generous sympathy than he received in return, although the relationship would become somewhat more equal toward the end of Pierpont's life.
~ Ron Chernow
Rockefeller followed Flagler's business adventures in Florida with sympathy but at a distance.
~ Ron Chernow