Unsympathetic Quotes

• A menudo nos negamos a aceptar una idea simplemente porque el tono de voz en el que se ha expresado nos resulta antipático.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relación, Ideas, Voz

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• 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

  Eye, Space, Mind

  1898 The War of the Worlds, bk.1, ch.1.

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• 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

  Real, Carácter, Pensamiento

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

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• 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

  Lying, Telling The Truth, Easy

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• 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

  Heart, Men, Blessing

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). "Un jardín chino de serenidad: Epigramas de los "Discursos sobre las raíces vegetales" de la dinastía Ming"

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• 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

  Thinking, Animal, Looks

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• Intento escribir sobre mujeres y personas reales, es decir, sobre personajes imperfectos. Los personajes imperfectos me parecen mucho más interesantes que los perfectos, y disfruto con el reto de hacer que los lectores sientan simpatía por ellos a pesar de su trayectoria antipática y sus decisiones destructivas. En la vida hay zonas grises. Las cosas rara vez son blancas o negras, aunque nos gustaría que lo fueran y pensamos que deberían serlo, y me gusta explorar este terreno lleno de matices.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Escritura, Carácter

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Fighting, Creating

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

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• [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

  Assessment, Differences, Way

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• I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.

  Oscar Levant

  Oscar Levant (1965). "Memorias de un amnésico"

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• Existe una crítica feminista a los Tribunales de Arbitraje Musulmanes, a la que desde luego no soy ajena, porque como sigo diciendo, provengo de un contexto de derechos humanos. Pero existe una crítica feminista a los Tribunales de Arbitraje Musulmanes en concreto, que afirma que los derechos de las mujeres se verán mermados por el hecho de que estos tribunales negociarán acuerdos y retirarán los cargos penales contra los hombres. No hay pruebas de que eso haya ocurrido.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Men, Feminist, Human Rights

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, Hysteria

  Entrevista con George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. 27 de marzo de 2016.

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• 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

  Fall, Character, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Lars está interpretado por Ryan Gosling, el Prince de las Tics, cuya idea de la actuación consiste en esperar unos compases antes de reaccionar a los comentarios de los demás, como si actuar fuera una mera cuestión de atenerse a la regla de los siete segundos de retraso. Jack Nicholson ha hecho carrera haciendo este tipo de cosas, al igual que Paul Newman, al igual que Marlon Brando (de quien los otros dos aprendieron), pero no lo hacían todo el tiempo y eran más divertidos de ver... Lars And The Real Girl se une a otras películas recientes en la categoría de películas en las que el director no sabe que su protagonista es antipático.

  Joe Queenan

  Girl, Fun, Real

  "Maniquí para todas las estaciones", por Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. 14 de marzo de 2008.

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• 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

  Attitude, Character, Sympathetic

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

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• 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

  Character, People, Devil

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• 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

  Stories, Cases, Significance

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

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• 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

  Taken, Breathing, Nurse

  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

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• 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

  Girl, Mean, Gay

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• 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

  Thinking, Masculine And Feminine, Clothes

  Fuente: www.elle.com

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• La actitud de los músicos extranjeros con respecto a los ingleses es antipática, egocéntrica y pedante. Creen que su tradición es la única (esto es especialmente cierto en el caso de los vieneses) y que todo lo que no esté de acuerdo con esa tradición es "erróneo" y surge de la ignorancia insular.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Actitud, Creer, Ignorancia

  "R.V.W.: Una biografía de Ralph Vaughan Williams". Libro de Ursula Vaughan Williams, p. 243, carta a Lord Kennet (1941), 1964.

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• Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Home, Evil, Criminals

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• 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

  Historical, Doctrine, Spirit

  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

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• Los niños tienen que ser duros para sobrevivir en las calles de Katmandú, donde los pandilleros mayores suelen pegarles y robarles. Se enfrentan a inviernos fríos, al hambre, a la falta de hogar y a una policía poco comprensiva. Pero bajo cada caparazón endurecido sigue habiendo un niño.

  Craig Kielburger

  Children, Kids, Winter

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• 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

  Hands, People, Lazy

  "Preguntas y respuestas: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Entrevista con Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. 9 th Of July de 2013.

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