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• If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

  Tonya Hurley

  Topics in Sympathy

• Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.

  Anthony Marais

  Topics in Sympathy

• I didn’t feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone’s leg.

  Peter Storey

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Broke, Rival

• I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Looking

• I’ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You’re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that’s about so you can represent it.

  Edward Norton

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Emotional, Reality

• If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it’s much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.

  George Soros

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in People, World

• Here’s my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there’s this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Profound, Books

• Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

  David Ivor Davies

  Topics in Life, Sympathy

  Tags in True

• To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Nothing

• I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people’s minds better than we Liberals.

   

  Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Growth

• Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

  Eamon de Valera

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Ourselves

• I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

  Billy Tauzin

  Topics in Sympathy

• I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I’ve always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people’s salaries.

  Sir Alex Ferguson

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Class

• Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

  Bob Feller

  Topics in Sympathy

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

  Ben Elton

  Topics in Sympathy

• Although I’m Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

  David John Chalmers

  Topics in Sympathy

• To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

  Elizabeth II

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Self, Thoughts

• California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

  Denis Kearney

  Topics in Sympathy

• Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Topics in Kindness, Sympathy

• Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Best, Autumn