Unsympathetic Quotes:

I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.

- Oscar Levant

topic: Unsympathetic

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Relationship, Ideas, Voice, Unsympathetic, Power Of Ideas

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Eye, Space, Mind, War Of The Worlds, Unsympathetic

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

- Matthew Macfadyen

source: "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

topic: Real, Character, Thinking, Unsympathetic

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

- Lee Child

topic: Lying, Telling The Truth, Easy, Unsympathetic

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.

- Zicheng Hong

topic: Heart, Men, Blessing, Beneficence, Cold Weather

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

- Ulrich Walter

topic: Thinking, Animal, Looks, Unsympathetic

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices. Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

- Emily Giffin

topic: Real, Writing, Character, Gray Area, Unsympathetic

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.42, Advaita Ashrama

topic: Anger, Fighting, Creating, Unsympathetic, Hatred And Anger

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Assessment, Differences, Way, Unsympathetic

There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from a human rights context. But there's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals specifically, which says women are going to have their rights eroded by virtue of the fact of these courts are going to negotiate settlements and negotiate the dropping of criminal charges against men. There's not been any evidence of that taking place.

- Sadakat Kadri

topic: Men, Feminist, Human Rights, Unsympathetic

There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at times. She just jumped in these scenes that go from anger to hysteria to crying to laughing and back to anger. I just marveled.

- Susan Sarandon

source: Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

topic: Character, Thinking, Hysteria, Unsympathetic

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

- Rick Moody

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Fall, Character, Thinking, Unsympathetic, Complex Characters

Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting to other people's remarks, as if acting were merely a matter of adhering to the seven-second delay rule. Jack Nicholson has made a career out of doing this sort of thing, as did Paul Newman, as did Marlon Brando (who the other two learned it from), but they didn't do it all the time and they were more fun to look at... Lars And The Real Girl joins a number of other recent films in the category of motion pictures where the director doesn't know that his protagonist is unsympathetic.

- Joe Queenan

source: "Mannequin for all seasons" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

topic: Girl, Fun, Real, Tics, Unsympathetic

My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.

- Don DeLillo

source: Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Attitude, Character, Sympathetic, Unsympathetic

I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.

- Glen Duncan

topic: Character, People, Devil, Rolling Stones, Unsympathetic

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

- Diane Setterfield

source: Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

topic: Stories, Cases, Significance, Unsympathetic

Hardy Cates," I said, coming into the room, "you behave, or I'll step on your tube." The nurse seemed taken aback by my unsympathetic bedside manner. But Hardy's gaze met mine in a moment of bright, hot voltage, and he relaxed, reassured in a way that cooing sympathy could never have done. "That only works if it's a breathing tube," he told me.

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.171, St. Martin's Press

topic: Taken, Breathing, Nurse, Unsympathetic, Voltage

I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it’ll be fine because he’s not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don’t.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Girl, Mean, Gay, Do You Like Me, Unsympathetic

Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".

- Vivienne Westwood

topic: Thinking, Clothes, People, Story People, Unsympathetic

The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.

- Ralph Vaughan Williams

source: "R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams". Book by Ursula Vaughan Williams, p. 243, letter to Lord Kennet (1941), 1964.

topic: Attitude, Believe, Ignorance, Unsympathetic, Pedantic

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

- Hans Christian Andersen

topic: Home, Evil, Criminals, Unsympathetic

Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

- George Henry Lewes

source: George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.9, London : Smith, Elder and Company

topic: Historical, Doctrine, Spirit, Unsympathetic, Historical Significance

Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child.

- Craig Kielburger

topic: Children, Kids, Winter, Gang Members, Winter Cold

What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a lazy cliché.

- Steve Coogan

topic: Hands, People, Lazy, Unsympathetic, Sleazy