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In Sympathy Quotes

I shall not weep for any of them, nor regret their fate, nor shake one feather in sympathy.
- Chris Adrian

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
- Julian Barnes

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
- David Chalmers

The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned the disciple who struck off the ear of the high priest's servant, our hearts go out in sympathy to all who are moved to violence by the suffering of others. The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.
- Graham Greene

What else did he say?"
She screwed up her face. "Oh, some weird thing about telling you that he still feels the same way about that tent, and he promises to say it to you in person next time he sees you."
I gave a bark of laughter that was more of a sob. "That asshat," I blubbered.
Elodie nodded in sympathy. "Such an asshat.
- Rachel Hawkins

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.
- Joe Hill

Horror was rooted in sympathy... in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.
- Joe Hill

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

I walk with a purpose. And a limp. (The limp helps serve my purpose, which is to gain sympathy.)
- Jarod Kintz

Hunched down in the small bright room Nel waited. Waited for the oldest cry. A scream not for others, not in sympathy for a burnt child, or a dead father, but a deeply personal cry for one's own pain. A loud, strident: 'Why me?' She waited.
- Toni Morrison

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
- Fritz Sauckel

There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.
- Obert Skye

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
- Alfred Emanuel Smith

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.
- Erich Von Stroheim

He remembered that part like you'd remember a story someone told to you once, like you might nod in sympathy but it wasn't like it happened to you.
- Anne Ursu

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