(298 quotes found)
“However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
Maya Angelou
“I'd be thinking about where the interview should go; she would be thinking about what she could do to sympathize [with a guest], to hug them and embrace the person and their problems.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.”
Oscar Wilde
“France is complicating the construction of Europe. So there is no reason for anyone to feel any particular sympathy for the country,”
Jacques Barrot
“Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.”
Mark Twain
“Children have but little charity for one another's defects”
“There's sympathy for that position. People think it's a defensible way to address the shortfall for transplantation. It's not a crude two-way process between individuals. People argue you could develop a brokering system within the NHS that could act as a third-party and control prices and make sure everything was safe and fair.”
Dr Graeme Laurie
“The president has deep respect for the pope, and he also has great compassion and sympathy for the 168 victims of the Oklahoma City bombing and their families.”
Claire Buchan
“Even Asian markets trade more in sympathy than they used to.”
Armin Lang
