Quote by John Irving
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave – and nothing but laughter to console them with. – John Irving

Other quotes by John Irving

I suppose Im proudest of my novels for whats imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. – John Irving

Category:
Imagination
Read Quote

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. – John Irving

Category:
Courage
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Sympathy
category

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom. – Wislawa Szymborska

Category:
Sympathy

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. – James Russell Lowell

Category:
Sympathy

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them. – Princess of Wales Diana

Category:
Sympathy

Ive always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. Youre trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what thats about so you can represent it. – Edward Norton

Category:
Sympathy

Random Quotes

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Drugs

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen. – Rio Ferdinand

Category:
Sports

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had – it was all – these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing. – Chris Isaak

Category:
dad

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world – that I am able to change it in positive ways. – Maxine Hong Kingston

Category:
positive