#sympathy

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#because #book #books #card #cash

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#century #hard #i #me #music

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#compassion #death #empathy #mourning #objectivity

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#criticism #first #sympathy

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#been #being #easy #face #joyous

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#does #empties #empty #sorrow #strength

The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#give #less #more #need #you

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#any #capable #good #mind #real

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#does #make #make up #pain #sympathy

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away. ↗

— Jared Leto

#always #away #because #been #given