Sympathize Empathize Quotes & Sayings

There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have. — Robin Hobb

Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted. — John Oliver

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread. — Sendhil Mullainathan

Everyone is called, everyone is sent out ... The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life. — Pope Francis

Its easy to protest, even a child protests...the hardest part is understanding the 'why and what to protest. — Victor Truth

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud. — Dan Wells

I don't have to sympathize or empathize with a human being in order to be able to portray them. I mean, some of the greatest roles that actors have been able to play haven't been the most endearing on screen. — Dustin Lance Black

I don't believe we need to sympathize with opposing views; I do believe we need to develop the capacity to acknowledge and empathize with conflicting opinions that are as passionately defended as our own. — Chris Rhyss Edwards

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton

The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology. — Hooman Majd

The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or her to make the invisible visible — Hillman Curtis

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter. — Francine Pascal

You can empathize without sympathizing. — William Ury

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. — Paul Muldoon

We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate. — Emeril Lagasse