Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Bob Feller

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

John Gotti

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Charles Darwin

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

William R. Alger

Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

John Muir

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Cicero

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

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

Henry David Thoreau

On behalf of the employees of Cisco, we send our deepest sympathy and condolences to all of those affected by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, ... This has been a crushing blow to the residents of the Gulf Coast and we stand by them, ready to help.

John Chambers

I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.

Loretta Young

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Anne Sullivan

If the unions ask for more than British Airways are offering, then there won't be much sympathy. British Airways has had to cut costs, and the unions know that.

Stephen Furlong

Those two people were swayed more by sympathy and emotion for the family than anything objective. That's my feeling.

Robert Harris

It's pathos. Pathos makes us feel sympathy, horror. It appeals to our emotions. It can make us cry, it can make us feel sorry. On the other hand, it's very difficult to assess blame.

John Iorio

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

Ben Elton

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.

Julian Barnes

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 E. Smith

What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.

Malcolm Lowry

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Thornton T. Munger

I certainly don't want people to vote for us out of sympathy. And New Yorkers certainly don't want people to vote for us out of sympathy.

Dan Doctoroff

One violent power was replaced by another for half a century. However, we cannot speak of our tough fate in the form of self-commiseration or demanding sympathy from others.

Arnold Ruutel

There's no question that sympathy played a role in this case. We have always felt that this case was a result of a young child who wanted to do something and that no warning label was going to stop her from doing it.

Scott Sarason

I would get on the bike every morning and ride around downtown with a knapsack on my back and literally pick up orders, most of them sympathy orders. I just kept that route every day just to let people know we were serious.

Lindsay Gray

It's hard to say what the jury is thinking, but I have liked both Clooney and Ang Lee, different films but both incredibly striking. Though sometimes they say there is no point in giving the prize to a U.S. film and in that case it might be 'Sympathy'.

Lee Marshall

In its rush to war, the administration has obscured the goals, dissimulated the costs, disparaged our friends and allies and branded as unpatriotic ordinary Americans who pose legitimate questions, ... It has squandered the universal credit and sympathy America received after 9/11, and it has damaged our alliances and the United Nations.

Carol Moseley Braun

We will react swiftly and firmly to any statements or actions suggesting sympathy with Nazi-era policies, or that express racism, xenophobia or anti-Semitism.

James Rubin

The government of Indonesia calls for the Indonesian people not to overreact in expressing their and sympathy towards the suffering of the Afghanistan people and not to engage in activities that are violating the laws and may disturb security and public order.

Hassan Wirayuda

I couldn't tell you what triggered that Monday. There is nothing we can do except give our sympathy. We're not blaming the airline. We're not blaming anyone. We're glad they tried to subdue him.

Leslie Rigby

It was a little nerve-racking. Now I have sympathy for the average European blues band coming over here.

Michael Gray

Sympathy for the untimely and tragic death of a four-month-old infant or sympathy toward an elderly man charged with these offenses have no place in this court's consideration of the evidence and the determination of guilt or innocence of the accused.

Patrick Riley

Our deepest sympathy and condolences are expressed to his family. He will be greatly missed by all of us.

Denny Lee

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

This day, which should have been one of celebration, is heartbreakingly tragic, ... I can't imagine the grief that her family is suffering and express my deepest sympathy to them.

Kathleen O'toole

I have some sympathy for his concern about drawing a reasonable line, ... That changed the ball game.

David Walker

He could mix stories about high fashion and the glamorous world he moved in with the gritty, more difficult subjects of racism and poverty that he knew firsthand and photographed with great sympathy.

John Loengard

Mr. Baxter had the utmost integrity and she respected him immensely. Mrs. Watkins expresses her heartfelt sympathy and prayers to her family.

Philip Hilder

I don't get much sympathy because Andy's such a loveable character. Anything Robert does seems to provoke a negative reaction from people on the street. I think one or two people feel a bit sorry for him now and again but it doesn't last very long.

Karl Davies

When large numbers of poor families started showing up in the central valley of California, and also in Los Angeles, at a time when the federal government was providing very little assistance, then the burden of caring for those new residents fell to those towns and cities, and sympathy dried up pretty quickly.

Gregory Davis

Even if they can't bring money they would just come to give me sympathy and support.

Abdul Latif

I do have sympathy for people dying on the road, but you don't litter our highways with crosses.

John Holliday

The way it stayed there were several positives. The travel issue is always a big factor out here so that was something to think about. I think (the UIL) had some sympathy for our situation.

Craig Yenzer

I must say I am not without sympathy for some of these executives, who find themselves in this position. It sounds like there are a lot of heated arguments going on in that [Microsoft] company.

Rebecca Mackinnon

I think the citizens would have some sympathy for (increasing legislative pay) if they saw their legislators listening to their concerns and doing a good job. And when a top legislative priority is taking away the rights of citizens to participate in the initiative process, they don't want to reward that.

Tim Eyman

Judges normally show greater sympathy for people of advanced years and deteriorating health.

Jacob Frenkel

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, 'I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction'.

Tryon Edwards

I know I speak on behalf of all NATO allies when I express our sympathy for and solidarity with the British people.

Jaap De Hoop Scheffer

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.

George William Russell

How can these people be so inhumane? Terri is forgotten and lies cold in her grave, and they feel sympathy Morales. What about my daughter, who was there to defend her?

Barbara Christian

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

William Henry Davies

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

John Fowles

I am gay and I'm very proud of who I am. I'm not asking for any sympathy or to be a role model to anyone else.

Mark Feehily

I can feel your sympathy. But seeing is what will impact you, even more than hearing the stories.

Anne Milling

With grief and outrage, I have heard of the terrible attacks in Madrid this morning. I am horrified at the high number of deaths and injured. I ask you to convey our sympathy to the victims' families and the Spanish nation. Those who were injured, I wish a speedy and complete recovery.

Gerhard Schroeder

Georgia will find very little sympathy in coastal South Carolina for the costs it must incur to correct its reliance on an unsustainable resource.

Dean Moss

Although I have sympathy for Ricky I cannot accept his move towards the on-field umpires as they made a move towards resuming play. He did not ask for the third umpire to be consulted but when he made that move and spoke to the officials I believe his involvement played a part in prompting the referral.

Jeff Crowe

We're there to show our sympathy, ... We're there to show our support and that we care. Whatever gift you give is going to be appreciated.

Terry Fox

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

Seth Green

A lot of people have sympathy for Chico because he's 11. As a parent, it pulls at your heart.

Vicki Meyer

We all feel a lot of sympathy for New York. Even having said that, I'm confident USOC will follow a process that started 2-1/2 years ago. They want to pick the best city that has the best plans for the best Olympic games.

Anne Cribbs

A desperate move made with the hope of eliciting some sympathy from the court to permit him to spend some part of the remainder of his life outside of jail.

Jacob Frenkel

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Jerome K. Jerome

There are sufferings which sympathy may not make lighter.

Lamennais

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Arnold Bennett

The president gives his deepest sympathy and condolence to the families of the victims.

Andi Mallarangeng

It wasn't that we wanted to bring them the things because they were pathetic and couldn't do anything for themselves. It was because when we were there they were dancing for us, and the children just seemed so alive and happy ... the whole thing isn't a sympathy thing.

Dan Eldon

I think most people realize how much we have changed over the last 30 years. There's a lot of sympathy, and everyone is concerned about where all the people will go.

Jan Hensley

Nobody around here has any sympathy for child molesters. The devastation they cause is like a cannon ball in a pond.

Wes Lane

[I have] no sympathy whatsoever. He not only kills the victim, but he inflicts life-long pain in the hearts of the victims -- the moms and brothers.

Barbara Christian

Even Asian markets trade more in sympathy than they used to.

Armin Lang

He clearly is aiming at the jury pool and aiming at voters, hoping to generate as much sympathy as he can. And it shows DeLay never misses a beat when it comes to fundraising — no matter how dark things get.

Larry Noble

I cannot begin to express my sorrow for my lost friends and my sympathy for those they left behind. I hope that my words will offer some solace to the miners' families and friends who have endured what no one should ever have to endure.

Randal Mccloy Jr

You have to find the sympathy in theatrical parts. And I think she's a sympathetic character. I think she's been wronged.

Amanda Fuller

The Olympic movement around the world has expressed its sympathy for the victims of September 11th in many ways since that tragic day. Showing the flag this respect is just one more way.

Anita Defrantz

We cooperated fully with the FRA in its investigation. We've taken steps to address the agency's findings. The accident was a tragedy, and we certainly extend our deepest sympathy to the family.

Bob Sullivan

We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.

Daniele Audetto

It's part of a carefully crafted strategy to try and engender sympathy for the defendant.

Randy Mastro

The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.

Benjamin Haydon

The kidnappers created sympathy for Jill Carroll and the Christians.

Mark Ensalaco

The chiefs are in support of the president, and they do not approve of what Speight has done, although there is sympathy for the views expressed by his followers.

Sitiveni Rabuka

She comes from the theater, so she has tons of experience. She has intelligence and the audience has an immediate sympathy for her.

Joe Mantello

We don't have too much sympathy if they are overcharging their customers and not making much effort to make sure customers are making informed choices.

John Fingleton

Bob became a dear friend to all of us. We will miss Bob's laugh, his sense of humor and his fighting spirit. Our sympathy and support go out to his family and to all those who knew and loved Bob. His pioneering spirit will long live on in the fight against heart disease.

Robert Dowling

I feel bad for him. But he doesn't need sympathy.

Matt Schrantz

As soon as I approached him he said, 'Don't worry, I'll be okay,' ... He didn't want any sympathy. He wants you to think he won't miss a beat. Not many guys would be able to play, let alone practice.

Joe Bugel

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.

Haniel Long

If you bought a house at the top of the market with an adjustable-rate mortgage, knowing that long-term interest rates eventually have to go up, you deserve to be punished for your bad behavior. I have no sympathy whatsoever.

Marci Rossell

I have endless sympathy for (them) because I see myself so much in them.

Miranda July

It reminded me of my days in Houston, when we not only had fun, but we wanted to beat people's heads in all of the time, ... I've got no sympathy for anyone in the game. I just want to beat you. And I want to beat you as bad as possible.

Carl Everett

They should go back home and re-create their countries which we have freed from tyranny, whether it is Kosovo or now Afghanistan. I have no sympathy whatsoever with young men in their twenties who do not.

David Blunkett

We would like to express our sympathy with Muslims who feel insulted or wronged.

Peder Tuborgh

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

J. Russell Lynes

I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.

Alexander Woollcott

CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

Ambrose Bierce

This is a sad and tragic situation for this child and his family and I offer sympathy to them. This unfortunate situation could have been avoided with proper crime prevention measures in the proper storage of the firearm.

Sam Page

I have to conclude that what Steele is doing is developing a line of attack that is designed to gain him a sympathy vote.

Ronald Walters

I don't want the sympathy twist on this. All I did was the right thing. I went in for my yearly mammogram and they found it.

Theresa Mcdermott

I don't think that anybody would necessarily flinch from buying a historic house, even if something violent happened there. I'm sure they would have sympathy for the victims, but the majority of people looking at historic houses buy them, because they like the history.

Suzanne Prieur

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Henry Ellis

You may have the judge's sympathy, but the law is the law. Nobody is required to leave anybody anything.

Roger Levine

He's a very powerful and effective force inside the Republican conference, and at this stage, the sympathy and support for him is so strong that he is going to be exceptionally effective if he picks his shots.

Tom Cole

[Popular sympathy for snowbirds is often restrained by class envy and the phenomenon of all the out-of-state tags in winter traffic jams. But economists consider them an asset.] Their economic impact is substantial, ... I think that's reflected by the fact that other states are actively attempting to attract them.

Stan Smith

I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderson didn't know that, but he wrote Laura Reynolds and Laura Reynolds happened to be me. It was the coming together of a part and an actress - the same attitude to life, a certain shyness in life, a deep compassion for people who are being persecuted for anything.

Deborah Kerr

[Marvin Olasky, a conservative Christian writer who has been a strong Bush supporter, explained his sympathy for Miers.] Maybe it's the judicial implications of her evangelical faith, unseen on the court in recent decades, ... Friends who know Miers well testify to her internal compass that includes a needle pointed toward Christ.

Marvin Olasky

Players are different today. They don't understand that it's a privilege to play this game. It's an honor. You have an opportunity to make a lot of money. But when you're complaining about only making $7 million to feed your family, nobody has sympathy for that. You're going to turn people off.

Tony Dorsett

Words cannot describe what we felt in terms of the support we received the night after Mike's passing, ... A number of people made a special effort to be there that night and express their deepest sympathy. The outpouring of cards, e-mails, and phone calls received here and in his hometown have been incredible.

Jim Richards

It was just heart-wrenching to see people's outpouring of sympathy and concern.

Deborah Porter

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith.

William Wordsworth

He was the person who went out and picked up the soldiers who got blown up. I have sympathy for him.

Bruce Reynolds

The storm victims never, ever thought they would be homeless. So you never know what might be the event that catapults you into homelessness. And that's why there's this tremendous amount of sympathy for these families.

Philip Mangano

There is a sympathy issue here for sure, but it still should be looked at. Can he really perform his job adequately under these circumstances?

Dennis Brown

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Anthony Storr

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

I?d be less than honest if I told you there was a great deal of sympathy for the net neutrality idea right now.

Art Brodsky

We are deeply shocked by this tragedy. Our sympathy and condolences go out to all those who have been affected.

Brian Bruce

I hope that these attacks will wake up the `Jordanian street' to end their sympathy with Saddam's remnants ... who exploit the freedom in this country to have a safe shelter to plot their criminal acts against Iraqis.

Laith Kubba

The unanimous ruling tells me that there wasn't a lot of patience or sympathy by the court for the argument by the law schools. And I would think that this finally ends the long-running legal debate on this issue.

Andrew Cohen

I have no sympathy for any of them. I think what Steve and I tried to do was to present them in ways that would invite the audience to see them not as freaks from another world, but to recognize things in them which we see in other people who are not crazed murderers.

John Weidman

Sometimes I'll go for something more because of the story, or more because of the director. But, generally, I have to feel like it's something that I have a real sympathy for - a person that I can completely go, "Oh, wow, oh, I'm there." Otherwise I don't feel like I will be able to pull it off at all.

Guy Pearce

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

William James

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

G. M. Trevelyan

From what I have read in letters to the editor is that someone else has created a food supply There was a habitat and food supply and they got established. My sympathy goes out to those who have do deal with it, but all you can do is deal with it.

Steve Turner

We all have sympathy on the individual level, but we have a remarkably broken system. This highlights the fact that people are exploiting the system. We have someone here who pledged to return home and then ignored U.S. immigration law.

John Keeley

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

Catharine Esther Beecher

When a priest comes out and says he is gay, he is promoting an agenda. He wants sympathy for himself and his cause and he is promoting the sodomite lifestyle which is an abomination.

Stephen Brady

If we let sympathy overcome reason, then sympathy becomes what race became in another case.

Stephen Jones

If it is a beginning to pave the way, he's got an awful long way to go yet. The public doesn't like Camilla. The sympathy is very much still with Diana who is seen as much more glamorous.

Glenda Cooper

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

Robert Anderson

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

Emily Post

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

Elizabeth Drew

I have sympathy for why they're striking; some kind of action is justified. There are no members of staff apart from teachers here, so we're just teaching the senior years.

Eva Young

Over time, some have seen his accomplishments as heroic and others have looked at them as scant. He certainly draws our sympathy as one who suffered losses, and we can admire his endurance and his dedication, and we certainly can appreciate his legacy to us here in Oregon.

Elisabeth Walton Potter

The conventional wisdom suggests that those who make hard and fast decisions for a living are prosecution-minded individuals since a verdict is not much more than another decision, and since sympathy and empathy play no part in the decision-making process.

Eroll Skyers

The events of last January were certainly tragic. Our sympathy remains with the people who were and continue to be affected.

Ed Saenz

There is a tendency for far too many to minimize the suffering of the neediest people because it is placed against a backdrop of black people out of control. Really, the major point is a breakdown and utter failure of federal, state and local governments to address the crisis. It makes no difference if a person is black or white, sympathy should be across the board.

Eric Love