Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sissy Spacek

He is just fantastic. As Ruth Fowler, I had to hate him while we were filming. And when I saw the film, I had such empathy for him.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Roger Ebert

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

Zhuangzi

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

Rebecca Solnit

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

Peter Greenaway

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

Jonathan Haidt

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Katherine Ellison

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

Eric Fischl

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

David Russell

I think they know we're not trying to poach here, we're just trying to help,

John Gottman

Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.

Kevin Foley

I think it may take a little while for teachers to feel that comfort level again.

David LaPointe

He wants to go that route in the comforts of his own home, that's his business, but don't start putting it out there.

John Hollman

There is no comfort words can provide in a situation like that. The truest comfort I could give was simply holding him in my arms, and letting him lay his head on my shoulder and crying with him. That's all I could do.

Sam Martin

We try to provide comfort at school so they know they have someone to talk to.

Allen Terrell

We've been waiting all year for someone to step up and grab hold of that fifth spot, and he's obviously doing that and then some. He's finding that level of comfort freshmen usually take time to find. He wants to step up and show he's a player we can count on.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Arvo Part

I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This one note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence, comforts me.

James Matthews

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.