Susan Orlean

You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience.

American Journalist

Matt McGorry

The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.

American Actor

George MacDonald

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Scottish Novelist

George A. Romero

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

American Director

Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Irish Poet

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Hunter Tylo

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.

American Actress

Karin Slaughter

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

American Writer

Mike Tyson

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

American Boxer

Amos Bronson Alcott

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

American Educator

Use when expressing emotional understanding with someone's situation.

Feeling Connection

Implies a comforting attitude towards someone else's hardship.

Supportive Tone

Sympathizing doesn't always mean you agree with the reasons behind someone's feelings.

Not Necessarily Agreement

Used when you support or approve of an idea or approach, not just a person.

Endorsing Ideas

It can mean quiet support, not necessarily active participation.

Quiet Alliance

Indicates agreement with underlying principles of a movement or action.

Shared Principles

 Americans consider lobsters more important than pigeons but also much, much stupider. Wild turkeys are seen as only slightly more dangerous than sea otters, and pandas are twice as lovable as ladybugs. So some of this is physical, right? We tend to sympathize more with animals that look like us, and especially that resemble human babies,

The strange story of the...

 so they'll grow up smart. And there are all kinds of play -- clay for finger dexterity, word games for reading success, large motor play, small motor play. I feel like I could devote my life to figuring out what to play with my kids." I think anyone who's recently been a parent can sympathize

Steven Pinker: Human...

 only of their family and people in their village. But with the expansion of literacy and travel, people started to sympathize with wider and wider circles, the clan, the tribe, the nation, the race, and perhaps eventually, all of humanity. Can hard-headed scientists

Steven Pinker and...

 should look at alternative treatments but certainly I do sort of sympathize and and have empathy with that you know I've experienced that myself and particularly with things like jet lag I certainly will use melatonin to see if I can help and you know if things like

Why sleep matters now...

 People are intuitively more inclined to believe information that supports a worldview they already have. Many young voters in your town are in favor of transitioning to renewable energy and sympathize with Greene. Rather than trying to change their minds,

Can you outsmart a troll...

 These shrimp are infected with a tapeworm. A tapeworm is effectively a long, living gut with genitals at one end and a hooked mouth at the other. As a freelance journalist, I sympathize. The tapeworm drains nutrients from Artemia's body,

Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...

 We're all here, and all of those who watch it are going to be traumatized by this event, but all of you here who are victims are going to learn some hard truths. That is, our society, we sympathize, but after a while,

Jason McCue: Terrorism...

 There are also many, many positive things about patriotism, and the ability to have a large number of people care about each other, sympathize with one another, and come together for collective action.

Nationalism vs....

 on saw this thing in the summer of 1785 it's how long it took people to figure out to go in there and he he drew this I can sympathize with this this is sort of what I did when I first went to you

Palenque and the Ancient...

 that I sympathize with all of that and I think it would be great if we lived in the world where people had to get their consent before messing with it but you

Sympathize