I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

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.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

I'm a champion for personal differences. I have no sympathy for drug companies that can't figure out how to make personalized medicine. We could generalize that to 'All society should be much more personalized.'

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

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

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

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.

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

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility and includes government officials, artists, doctors, composers and writers as well as former members of the old nobility whose sympathy is with the Soviets, and also the peasant class.

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

I have sympathy for the people in Syria, and I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously.

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.

I have several close friends who are insomniacs. Over the years, I've heard their stories about being up in the middle of the night, completely awake. I see them yawn at 11 A.M. and know that, regardless of what they are doing, they'd probably rather be in bed sleeping. I've always had sympathy for them, but I've never really understood it.