Expression Of Sympathy Quotes

#1. More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

John Hall

#2. In certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

George Eliot

#3. Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#4. His face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

Philip Pullman

#5. I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine, and my niece, Deborah, and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

Olivia De Havilland

#6. The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.

David Bohm

#7. Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."

Calvin Coolidge

#8. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

Wilkie Collins

#9. The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

Charles Colson

#10. There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

Golda Meir

#11. In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends
give me the country.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. Am I a child? Always someone else must decide for me. But this I will decide for myself.

Katherine Arden

#13. I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

Philip Pearlstein

#14. A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#15. Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Richard Asher

#16. Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

Quintilian

#17. No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews.

H.W. Charles

#18. I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart.

Bram Stoker

#19. If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

Tara Brach