Sympathy : (11)

" 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. " - Shinzo Abe

" I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I’ll never be thin. Let’s be honest. " - Kevin Smith

" I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest. " - Laura Riding

" I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them. " - Ron Chernow

" All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. " - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. " - William R. Alger

" When you’ve lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was. " - Elizabeth McCracken

" I feel like there’s a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers. " - Morgan Neville

" And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. " - Walt Whitman

" I’m constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy’s camp. For example in WWII, we know the Nazis and the Japanese were wrong. But I sympathize with the individual story of a soldier who was drafted into that. " - Chloe Zhao