AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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.
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.
A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.
I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.
Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
