Sympathy Quotes

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.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

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.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

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.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

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.

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.

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.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

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.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

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.

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.

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?

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.