Sympathetic famous quotes

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.
-- Andrew Motion

#Moving #Want #Sympathetic

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

#Groups #Get Away #Sympathetic

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.
-- Donal Logue

#Character #Sympathetic

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
-- Euripides

#Men #Wife #Sympathetic

I don't like sympathetic characters.
-- Howard Barker

#Character #Sympathetic

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

#Creepy #Lines #Sympathetic

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

#Hurt #People #Sympathetic

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Heritage #Sympathetic #Backgrounds

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.
-- Jim Broadbent

#Research #Sympathetic #Turns

History is sympathetic to its authors.
-- John McAfee

#Sympathetic

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
-- Joyce Carol Oates

#Editors #Sympathetic #Critics

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

#Mother #Mentor #Sympathetic

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.
-- Lydia Lunch

#Mad #Busy #Sympathetic

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
-- Patrick MacGill

#Party #Provision #Sympathetic

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
-- Peter Asher

#People #Sympathetic #Position

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
-- Ralph Nader

#Administration #Corporations #Sympathetic

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
-- Randa Abdel-Fattah

#Character #Way #Sympathetic

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
-- Allen W. Wood

#Tradition #Metaphysical #Sympathetic

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
-- Ronald Firbank

#Discrimination #Sympathetic