Pastoral Resources

Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

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

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.

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

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.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

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

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

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

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.