I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

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

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

When we are out of sympathy with the young then I think our work in this world is over.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits thoughts and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy never with its reason.