17 Sympathies Quotes for You to Enjoy

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. Henry Adams

Men Power Victim Self Sort Effect Ends Tumor Aggravation Publicity Sympathies

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. Willa Cather

Best Character Creative Everything Define Range Lies About Only Write Writer Talent Well Equally Within Limitations His Reporter Artist Note View Deepest Presented Sympathies

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. B. R. Hayden

Love Death Great Hinges Human Which Turn Two Sympathies

Artworks are especially good at helping our psyches in a variety of ways: they rebalance our moods, lend us hope, usher in calm, stretch our sympathies, reignite our senses, and reawaken appreciation. Alain de Botton

Hope Good Appreciation Calm Our Ways Moods Variety Senses Lend Us Helping Usher Stretch Sympathies

The American people didn't send us to Congress to post our sympathies on social media. You can do that without going through the trouble of getting elected to Congress. This job is about setting rules that better protect us and our children. Chris Murphy

You People Post Better Social Media Job Trouble Congress Setting Our Rules About Through Protect Without American Send Getting Going Children Social American People Elected Us Media Sympathies

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies. Frances Wright

Man Selfish Heart Competition Progress Edge Extreme Carried Has-Been Finest Point Generous Most Principle Isolated Been His Existing Impulses Sensibilities Blunted Interest Sympathies

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. James Anthony Froude

First Own Duty Guard His Historian Against Sympathies

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state. Jim Garrison

Conviction Defense Side State More Tend Individual Attorney Obtaining Client Always Opposed Than Much Interests Satisfaction Ever Received Sympathies

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered. Marc Rich

You Business Otherwise Our Run Would Would-Be Based Sympathies

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future. Martin Rees

Future Time Space Long Heritage Our Broaden Immense Ourselves Perceive Both Part Stewards Space And Time Need Sympathies

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting. Sara Zarr

Opportunities Shifting Other Plot Something Development Know Reader Does Narrator Get Suspense Interesting Really Sympathies

I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was close with my mom and had to break with her in order to find myself and come back. Since that was my experience, that's often what happens in my books. Sarah Dessen

Myself Mom Experience School Mother Become Changed Back Books High Find High School Through Had Since Come Period Close Often Where Order Break Happens Her Sympathies

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate. Sonia Sotomayor

Experience Judge Differences Heritage Sum Sum Total Appropriate Those Willingly Must Total Resulting Attempt Supreme Supreme Court Accept Greater Court Limitations Opinions Continuously Deny Than Experiences Prejudices Aspire Who Sympathies

I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies have always been with the struggling mass. Sun Yat-sen

Son Born Struggling Mass Always Am Still Been Poor Sympathies

Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor. Susan Stewart

Parents Giving First City Born Emperor Major Name First Name Him Italian Port Zenith Sympathies

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. Thomas Francis Meagher

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