Sentiments For Sympathy Quotes & Sayings

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. — Charlotte Bronte

I remember one time I went to a party and I had to interview Reese Witherspoon. She was just in this movie "Freeway," it's like 1996. To prepare for the interview I went to meet her at this release party, and I end up getting in this fist fight with a guy. I'm not much of a fighter but I get in this fight and the press was all there and they saw me, and all of a sudden the next day in the paper was 'Simon Rex and his posse get in scuffle, and Simon crashes a bottle over a guy's head after smoking crack in the bathroom.' I saved the article forever. — Simon Rex

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. — Hugh Mackay

It's easier to love a brand when the brand loves you back. — Seth

It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. — James Q. Wilson

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable. — Louis Untermeyer

The hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Though it was the worst season in her life, something wonderful came of it. She found a relationship with Jesus. — Karen Kingsbury

Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature. — Ted Malloch

But events can unfold in such a manner that overnight the man out of step finds himself in the right place at the right time. The fashions and attitudes that had seemed so alien to him are suddenly swept aside and supplanted by fashions and attitudes in perfect sympathy with his deepest sentiments. Then, like a lone sailor adrift for years on alien seas, he wakes one night to discover familiar constellations overhead. And — Amor Towles

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace. — Martin Luther

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past. — Joan Didion

I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of sympathy, empathy, reciprocity, a willingness to follow social rules. Dogs are a good example of a species that have and obey social rules; that's why we like them so much, even though they're large carnivores. — Frans De Waal

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then. — David Gilmour

It is well to moor your bark with two anchors. — Publilius Syrus

Some 70% to 80% of all who join the military will return to the civilian workforce. They'll return to communities, and one of the things I've worried about is the increasing disconnect between the American people and our men and women in uniform. We come from fewer and fewer places. We're less than 1% of the population. — Michael Mullen

Calling each other faggots behind the keys of a message board ... — Macklemore

I think there are [gay players] right now, and if they're looking for a window to just come out, I mean, now is the window. My view on it is, yes, I am a Christian, but to each his own. You do what you want to do. — Robert Griffin III

I've always been able to survive by writing, though. — John Milius

The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny. — James Madison

In The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, Smith emphasized that trust, responsibility and accountability exist only in a society that respects them, and only where the spontaneous fruit of human sympathy is allowed to ripen. It is where sympathy, duty and virtue achieve their proper place that self-interest leads, by an invisible hand, to a result that benefits everyone. And this means that people can best satisfy their interests only in a context where they are also on occasion moved to renounce them. Beneath every society where self-interest pays off, lies a foundation of self-sacrifice. — Roger Scruton

There you go, Mr. Nabhan; seems to me you're right! — George Noory