#pathetic

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appealed #audience #cords #douglas #effort

We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#becomes #comic #comic relief #dark #funny

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people. ↗

— John Warnock

#communication #empathetic #exist #i #i think

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#aloud #crisis #every #friend #life

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes. ↗

— John Hawley

#confidence #disposed #entire #i #i am

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces. ↗

— Kit Bond

#am #forces #i #i am #knows

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#enemy #every #fancies #far #friend

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#any #ceased #concern #course #imagine

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there. ↗

— Simon LeBon

#fashion #i #life #my life #pathetic

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#background #being #black #blacks #common