Sympathy Quotes

"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
-Bob Feller

"Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order."
-John Gotti

"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
-Henry David Thoreau

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
-Albert Einstein

"Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
-Charles Darwin

"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."
-William R. Alger

"Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate."
-John Muir

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."
-Cicero

"On behalf of the employees of Cisco, we send our deepest sympathy and condolences to all of those affected by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, ... This has been a crushing blow to the residents of the Gulf Coast and we stand by them, ready to help."
-John Chambers

"Those two people were swayed more by sympathy and emotion for the family than anything objective. That's my feeling."
-Robert Harris

"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."
-Anne Sullivan

"It's pathos. Pathos makes us feel sympathy, horror. It appeals to our emotions. It can make us cry, it can make us feel sorry. On the other hand, it's very difficult to assess blame."
-John Iorio

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
-Ben Elton

"If the unions ask for more than British Airways are offering, then there won't be much sympathy. British Airways has had to cut costs, and the unions know that."
-Stephen Furlong

"The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly."
-Julian Barnes

"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
-Alfred E. Smith

"What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is."
-Malcolm Lowry

"Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it."
-Thornton T. Munger

"It's hard to say what the jury is thinking, but I have liked both Clooney and Ang Lee, different films but both incredibly striking. Though sometimes they say there is no point in giving the prize to a U.S. film and in that case it might be 'Sympathy'."
-Lee Marshall

"The government of Indonesia calls for the Indonesian people not to overreact in expressing their and sympathy towards the suffering of the Afghanistan people and not to engage in activities that are violating the laws and may disturb security and public order."
-Hassan Wirayuda

"We will react swiftly and firmly to any statements or actions suggesting sympathy with Nazi-era policies, or that express racism, xenophobia or anti-Semitism."
-James Rubin

"In its rush to war, the administration has obscured the goals, dissimulated the costs, disparaged our friends and allies and branded as unpatriotic ordinary Americans who pose legitimate questions, ... It has squandered the universal credit and sympathy America received after 9/11, and it has damaged our alliances and the United Nations."
-Carol Moseley Braun

"It was a little nerve-racking. Now I have sympathy for the average European blues band coming over here."
-Michael Gray

"Sympathy for the untimely and tragic death of a four-month-old infant or sympathy toward an elderly man charged with these offenses have no place in this court's consideration of the evidence and the determination of guilt or innocence of the accused."
-Patrick Riley

"Our deepest sympathy and condolences are expressed to his family. He will be greatly missed by all of us."
-Denny Lee

"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
-Dorothy Thompson

"I have some sympathy for his concern about drawing a reasonable line, ... That changed the ball game."
-David Walker

"One violent power was replaced by another for half a century. However, we cannot speak of our tough fate in the form of self-commiseration or demanding sympathy from others."
-Arnold Ruutel