Quotes about Sympathetic

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? Votes: 6

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. Votes: 6

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. Votes: 6

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? Votes: 6

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth. Votes: 6

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. Votes: 6

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. Votes: 6

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. Votes: 6

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. Votes: 6

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself. Votes: 6

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. Votes: 6

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. Votes: 4

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. Votes: 4

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations Votes: 4

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area. Votes: 4

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything. Votes: 4

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed. Votes: 4

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. Votes: 4

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations. Votes: 4

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. Votes: 4

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Votes: 4

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. Votes: 4

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems. Votes: 4

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. Votes: 4

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain. Votes: 4

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! Votes: 3

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard. Votes: 3

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. Votes: 3

Well, I think likability is an overused word. I don't watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they're compelling. Sympathetic is a little different. Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows. Votes: 3

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. Votes: 2

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable. Votes: 2

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. Votes: 2

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up. Votes: 2

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. Votes: 2

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society? Votes: 2

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen. Votes: 2

For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her. Votes: 2

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary. Votes: 2

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.' Votes: 2

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them. Votes: 2

Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed harsh restrictions on abortion. After measuring the difference between the Massachusetts electorate and the national one to which he must now appeal, he has reversed those positions. Votes: 2

What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos? Votes: 2

I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it's important, but I don't really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them. Votes: 2

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. Votes: 2

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color. Votes: 2

I don't like sympathetic characters. Votes: 0

History is sympathetic to its authors. Votes: 0

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me. Votes: 0

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. Votes: 0

Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage. Votes: 0

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires. Votes: 0

He's a pagan! I'm an artist! We're naturally sympathetic! Votes: 0

Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic. Votes: 0

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. Votes: 0

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.... Votes: 0

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself. Votes: 0

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation. Votes: 0

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football. Votes: 0

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America. Votes: 0

The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations. Votes: 0

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. Votes: 0

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people. Votes: 0

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic. Votes: 0

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. Votes: 0

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. Votes: 0

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self. Votes: 0

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized. Votes: 0

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint. Votes: 0

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. Votes: 0

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic. Votes: 0

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles. Votes: 0

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. Votes: 0

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus... Votes: 0

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. Votes: 0

I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant. Votes: 0

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears. Votes: 0

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. Votes: 0

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting. Votes: 0

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions. Votes: 0

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is. Votes: 0

With 'Vikings,' I had the task of making these people interesting and, to a point, sympathetic. Votes: 0

When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk. Votes: 0

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me. Votes: 0

I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen. Votes: 0

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core. Votes: 0

I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart? Votes: 0

There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed. Votes: 0

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom. Votes: 0

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study. Votes: 0

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. Votes: 0

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters. Votes: 0

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred. Votes: 0

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow. Votes: 0

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies. Votes: 0

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces. Votes: 0

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. Votes: 0

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts. Votes: 0

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye. Votes: 0

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. Votes: 0

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. Votes: 0

I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations. Votes: 0

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him. Votes: 0

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience. Votes: 0

Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end. Votes: 0

Even if you become sympathetic for somebody who has done something terrible, I don't think that necessarily makes what they did look cool. Votes: 0

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age. Votes: 0

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing. Votes: 0

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views. Votes: 0

A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully. Votes: 0

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires. Votes: 0

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. Votes: 0

I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic. Votes: 0

What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself. Votes: 0

The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population. Votes: 0

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working. Votes: 0

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. Votes: 0

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them. Votes: 0

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them. Votes: 0

The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate. Votes: 0

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent. Votes: 0

Every girl in the world wants to find the right man, someone who is sympathetic and understanding and helpful and strong, someone she can love madly. Votes: 0

They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom. Votes: 0

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation. Votes: 0

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way. Votes: 0

The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response. Votes: 0

There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better. Votes: 0

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom. Votes: 0

Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life. Votes: 0

Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love. Votes: 0

It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine. Votes: 0

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts. Votes: 0

I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country. Votes: 0

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence. Votes: 0

I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it. Votes: 0

I am sympathetic to developing countries' concerns: because of our emissions it's their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it's their fields that turn to desert. Votes: 0

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.' Votes: 0

I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason. Votes: 0

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes. Votes: 0

Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed Votes: 0

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour. Votes: 0

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me. Votes: 0

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic. Votes: 0

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other. Votes: 0

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal. Votes: 0

I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans? Votes: 0

To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship... Votes: 0

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn. Votes: 0

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important. Votes: 0

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls. Votes: 0

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord. Votes: 0

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present. Votes: 0

To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult. Votes: 0

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. Votes: 0

At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards. Votes: 0

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice. Votes: 0

1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis. Votes: 0

Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take. Votes: 0

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic. Votes: 0

After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them Votes: 0

A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love. Votes: 0

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them. Votes: 0

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right. Votes: 0

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe. Votes: 0

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental. Votes: 0

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. Votes: 0

What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object. Votes: 0

My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't. Votes: 0

Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel? Votes: 0

When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond. Votes: 0

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty. Votes: 0

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him. Votes: 0

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic like a self-absorbed ice queen. Votes: 0

As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country', I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy. Votes: 0

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate. Votes: 0

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding. Votes: 0

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental. Votes: 0

Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create. Votes: 0

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands. Votes: 0

Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many. Votes: 0

Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle. Votes: 0

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons. Votes: 0

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic approach to everybody. You be nice to everybody, basically. Votes: 0

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone. Votes: 0

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about. Votes: 0

How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh. Votes: 0

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him. Votes: 0

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions. Votes: 0

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. Votes: 0