You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.
History is sympathetic to its authors.
Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I'm very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don't have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak.
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. . . . His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.
Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words. . . His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.
It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
The hour on stage is rarely a drag. In fact, I can't really say that its ever a drag. The few times that its been challenging has been when you don't have a sympathetic audience or there is the occasional strange corporate gig or something that you take or that you're not sure and you're like, "Wait a second. That's just the wrong venue".
There are certain reactions that you aren't allowed to show in Berlin, for example that you feel offended. If you do, the best-case scenario is a sympathetic article along the lines of: Nice guy, but he's not up to it. The alternative is to don a suit of armor and become cynical. But that's not healthy either: Cynicism is the worst characteristic a politician can have. That's why you have to have an internal balance in Berlin, so you can stay true to yourself. And I have that.
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.
We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.
When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.