#pathetic

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#ball #got #i #me #off

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effect #external #external things #fallacy #falseness

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #little #offended #pathetic #stands

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#knocking #lawmakers #our #pathetic #pitiful

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#get #groups #i #old #sympathetic

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#characters #chekhov #created #emphasis #less

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#around #back #done #golf #itself

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football. ↗

— Michael Strahan

#football #once #step #sympathetic #you

If the onset of wrinkles in middle age were referred to as laughter lines, then to look at him, Scott thought, Twinkle's life must have been hilarious. He had sharp eyes that often seemed to visually contradict the lack of intelligence that could be derived from listening to him talk. There might not be a lot to respect in Twinkle, but Scott liked him. He just didn't want to end up like him. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#empathetic #age

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#aged #because #been #being #compassionate