Sympathetic People Quotes

#1. Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

George Eliot

#2. They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

George W. Bush

#3. The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people." Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.

Bob Newhart

#5. I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android ... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic ... like a self-absorbed ice queen.

Megan Fox

#6. It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

Ingrid Newkirk

#7. [A]ll the ... people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.

Robert Charles Wilson

#8. I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

Adam McKay

#9. I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?

Matt Dillon

#10. I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Jean Webster

#11. You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people ... that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.

Keith Haring

#12. People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.

Matthew Quick

#13. There are two kinds of hot girls: Evil Hot Girls, and Hot Girls Who Are Also Sympathetic Good-Hearted People and Will Not Intentionally Destroy Your Life (HGWAASGHPAWNIDYL).

Jesse Andrews

#14. He does tend to have that effect on people. They come in expecting to feel sympathetic but walk away wanting to strangle him.

Lauren Layne

#15. The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

Andrew O'Hagan

#16. I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.

John Raptor

#17. I was an outsider ... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

Elia Kazan

#18. Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

Dale Carnegie

#19. I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.

Steve Wozniak

#20. A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

George Eliot

#21. I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.

Bill Nye

#22. You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated in children.

Jean Webster

#23. I liked being inside the head of someone who reveals himself unknowingly while he still thinks most people find him sympathetic. DG:

Herman Koch

#24. I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

Alan King

#25. With 'Vikings,' I had the task of making these people interesting and, to a point, sympathetic.

Michael Hirst

#26. With mercy and sympathy, no one will hate to love one another.

Auliq Ice

#27. I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but considerate of others. I always gave up my place in line. I loaned out pencils and paper, or let people take them from me. I never reported a sexual assault.

Julie Anne Peters

#28. It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

Jennifer Niven

#29. I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

Michael Caine

#30. Well, I think likability is an overused word. I don't watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they're compelling. Sympathetic is a little different. Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.

Louis C.K.

#31. I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

Damien Chazelle

#32. In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

Peter Asher

#33. I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.

John Caudwell

#34. Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when I didn't want to do it. But I've lived with one for a while now and I guess I can put myself more in their position. You shouldn't be too sympathetic to them.

Helen Mirren

#35. Shy" was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. "Snotty" was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

Ann Brashares

#36. I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism ... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

Russell Crowe

#37. It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

John Irving

#38. Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

Zadie Smith

#39. I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#40. There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

Peter T. King

#41. People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

Berthold Auerbach

#42. I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people.

Natalie Portman

#43. Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

Northrop Frye

#44. There are good points about all ... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#45. I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

Margaret Thatcher

#46. I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

Tilda Swinton

#47. I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.

E. J. Dionne

#48. I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

Ian Bremmer

#49. I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.

Erykah Badu

#50. A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love.

Arthur Middleton

#51. Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own lands. But as a country, we cannot afford to have a total open-door policy without any restrictions on entry.

Ed Koch

#52. Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

Frank Lampard

#53. 12 As holy people whom God has chosen and loved, be sympathetic, kind, humble, gentle, and patient. 13 Put up with each other, and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 Above all, be loving.

Anonymous

#54. The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

Robert Adams

#55. In America, the government is accountable to the people, not the other way around," says a constitutional law scholar sympathetic to the antiwar movement on the subject of the anonymous police.

Nathan Hill

#56. Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Isadora Duncan