A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Captain Hale alone without sympathy or support save that from above on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

Criticism in the universities I'll have to admit has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy like that of the historian must be unbounded and untainted by sect or party.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change and whom no one can help become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Well you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

Without Arthur's voice I never would have enjoyed that success.