Pathetic Quotations | Page 2

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.

The Iraq I returned from was, in my mind, a fairly simple place. By which I mean it had little relationship to reality. It's only with time and the help of smart, empathetic friends willing to pull through many serious conversations that I've been able to learn more about what I witnessed.

The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

We respect the views of the former general, appreciate his sense of nationalism and share his concerns about the plight of our people. But this quixotic declaration is pathetic and unfortunate.

Humans want human contact. You want someone empathetic who can help you.

...no worship is better than apathetic worship.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

I can't even think of a good- enough, pathetic analogy for shooting a bison resting on the ground.