#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

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bear #does #fruit #god #grow

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#ettiquette #manners #sympathy #death

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. ↗

— William R. Alger

#always #crowd #never #reason #thinks

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#criticism #first #sympathy

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

— Corrie Ten Boom

#does #empties #empty #sorrow #strength

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. ↗

— John Burns

#fallen #hand #help #helping #helping hand

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#benefit #between #each #friendly #friendship

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

— Malcolm Forbes

#give #less #more #need #you

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. ↗

— Bob Feller

#bestowed #something #sympathy #them #upon