AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s. Edmund White 1970saidbrat Change image and share on social
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. Jesse Jackson changerenderresult Change image and share on social
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. Victor Hugo bearfruitgod Change image and share on social
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant. Siri Hustvedt charactercutdamage Change image and share on social
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. Henry Rollins knowsad Change image and share on social
To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance. Nina Easton avoidcareerchronically Change image and share on social
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 desirefallhand Change image and share on social
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. Robert Green Ingersoll characterdutylive Change image and share on social
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. Robert Dallek breedcandidatecontest share on social
I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible. John Rhys-Davies believercreationistevolutionary Change image and share on social