1. 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. - John Irving
2. Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. - Florence Nightingale
3. We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. - Richard M. Nixon
4. 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. - Davy Crockett
5. I'm not looking for sympathy at all. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
6. I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. - Terry Pratchett
7. We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. - Chuck Palahniuk
8. Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. - P. J. O'Rourke
9. No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. - Emma Goldman
10. I like movies that make you semi fall in love with the villain so you have sympathy for him. - Megan Thee Stallion
11. Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. - Henri Frederic Amiel
12. To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. - Queen Elizabeth II
13. I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way. - Rush Limbaugh
14. Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind. - John Burroughs
15. Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. - Woodrow Wilson
16. What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy. - Robert Green Ingersoll
17. The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy. - Eddie Vedder
18. What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy. - Tarana Burke
19. Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20. All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21. Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. - Anne Sullivan
22. 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. - William E. Gladstone
23. Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them. - Juliette Gordon Low
24. Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides. - Jim Gaffigan
25. Labor should be recognized as entitled to consult with management in the mutual interest. Labor cannot be driven, and business cannot be successful unless the men employed in it are enthusiastic and loyal. That loyalty cannot be obtained with a big stick; it must be based upon fair dealing and sympathy. - Charles M. Schwab
26. Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story. - Regina Brett
27. I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel. - Alan Rickman
28. I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
29. In grade one and two, I was definitely into heavy metal and Satanic rock music, bands that had attributes that were quote-unquote 'Satanic,' even things like the Rolling Stones with 'Their Satanic Majesties Request' and 'Sympathy for the Devil,' but also like Motley Crue and Kiss and Alice Cooper. - Tobias Forge
30. Pretty much all the drivers I get on with, at least to say 'Hi' and have a conversation. But when the helmet's on, you don't care who it is. You have no sympathy: someone blows an engine in front of you, if it means you gain a position, then you're smiling. - Daniel Ricciardo
31. 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. - John Lydon
32. I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one. - Hugh Jackman
33. I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. - Wislawa Szymborska
34. I'm a champion for personal differences. I have no sympathy for drug companies that can't figure out how to make personalized medicine. We could generalize that to 'All society should be much more personalized.' - George M. Church
35. When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. - George MacDonald
36. 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. - George Soros
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