Top 465 Sympathetic Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.
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.
And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
Even if you become sympathetic for somebody who has done something terrible, I don't think that necessarily makes what they did look cool.
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.
And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.
Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
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.
In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.
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.
A major concern of some of us who were not sympathetic to the separate Telangana movement was with respect to the future of Hyderabad.
I'm not a sympathetic guy when I see people throwing their lives away and using their life's obstacles as excuses to fail. I just don't buy into that.
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.
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.
There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic.
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
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.
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 get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.
I always loved Flannery O'Conner, and how she's not trying to create sympathetic characters.
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.
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.
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
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.
I think that Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi obviously are incredibly sympathetic to the DACA people. And so am I, of course.
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement.
As a firearms owner myself, I'm very sympathetic to the concerns that people like me face every day.
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
Pre-suasion is the practice of getting people sympathetic to your message before they experience it.
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.
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.
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.'
I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.
Ironically, heavier comedians, actors, and the characters they play are actually more sympathetic, and easier for audiences to identify with, than the svelte.
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.
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
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.
No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.
When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.
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.
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.
