Top 465 Sympathetic Quotes & Sayings

I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

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

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

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.'

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

People aren't inherently sympathetic.

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

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

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

If you are open with someone, he will be open with you. If you want love from someone, give your love to him. If you want kind and sympathetic behavior from someone, be kind and sympathetic to him.

The idea that people feel that they have to be sympathetic to me? It's a funny concept.

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

A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

I am deeply sympathetic to Indigenous treatment at the hands of white society.

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

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

He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!

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

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

... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation" was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge ... To those who have reluctantly learnt a little mathematics in school this may seem strange; but to those who have experienced the intoxicating delight of sudden understanding that mathematics gives, from time to time, to those who love it, the Pythagorean view will seem completely natural.

If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter movement]. The fact that you want to argue rather than find some common ground, I think, has gotten a lot worse in the last years.

I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

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?

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

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.

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

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

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

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

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

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

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

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

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

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

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

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

Every single means of communication amongst the public, the government has antennae into, to find out who is liable to be sympathetic and who is not liable to be sympathetic, and I think this has probably been going on since all channels of communication began.

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.

Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we do it. He thinks all is well if I act beneficently, realizing that it is my duty but also having sympathetic feelings for the person I help. But I ought to strive to be the sort of person who would still help even if these feelings were absent. And it is such a case that he presents when the sympathetic friend of humanity finds his sympathetic feelings overclouded by his own sorrows, and still acts beneficently from duty.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

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

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

Godard never sought to be sympathetic.

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

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

Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic.

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

My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.

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.

History is sympathetic to its authors.

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

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

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