#sympathy

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. ↗

— Tom Ford

#america #had #moment #september #sympathy

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#less #trouble #world #would

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #better #colour #joy #less

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#distant #misery #our #relation #sympathy

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

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

— Corrie Ten Boom

#does #empties #empty #sorrow #strength

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitudes #creative #does #element #eliminated

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#desire #experience #firmest #foundations #founded

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#always #around #go #grief #grieving

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