Emily Maitlis Quotes

I feel empathy wherever and whenever someone feels cornered in life. Whenever someone puts in sweat and blood and does not get the acceptance and appreciation one deserves, I resonate with it.

Walk a day in my shoes and you'd be irritable too.

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

I don't have much patience with sick people.

When people think Arsenal had a bad season and we've had a good one, yet they still finish above us, it hurts.

People need to cut me a break.

You cannot expect a driver who has just lost a shot at pole position to run around with a smile on his face. You need to accept that he is upset in a different way to how we are upset.

Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.

A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.

Empathy is much bigger than sympathy. When the character is empathised with, that means you have succeeded as an actor. So even if it's a villain, the audiences don't hate you... they understand why you have turned into a villain.

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

I believe in being compassionate.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

We should strive to understand the weakness of others.

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.