Sympathetic Quotes

Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic.

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

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

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.

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as possible.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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...

History is sympathetic to its authors.

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.

...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.

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

I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.

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

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

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I first start with weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, be sympathetic, show tenderness and brotherly kindness.

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.

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.

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

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

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.'

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.

Be the person you needed when you needed help.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.

By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.

To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.