Quotes About Sensitivity

I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.

I didn't want it to feel like I was shoving my sexuality down people's throats.

People who would never think of dealing in racial or sexual stereotypes will still throw in a fat joke because it's still OK. Really?

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers would not stop for me after dark; white girls jogged to keep ahead of my shadow thrown at their heels by the amber street lamps. Part of me didn't blame them, but most of me was hurt.

I stay off the Internet, because I'm very sensitive to commentary. There could be 10 comments of 'Fabulous job!' and one 'She's horrible!' and it completely throws me.

If you want to become life sensitive, a simple process that you do is this: make whatever you think and whatever you feel less important. Try and see for one day. Suddenly you will feel the breeze, the rain, the flowers and the people, everything in a completely different way. Suddenly the life in you becomes much more active and alive for your experience.

What are you on?' said AJ. 'Leon's mum has died and you are determined to add to the total sum of misery by going out with the girlfriend of the nastiest piece of manhood that was ever assembled in the factory of life...

While he may not often curse, Ray Bradbury does cry. Often. Tears of joy. Tears of sorrow. He cries when watching the news; he cries when people say kind things to him; he cries when recalling fond memories. Sometimes he cries several times a day.

Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

As Mahathir suggested, Asians generally pursue their goals with others in ways which are subtle, indirect, modulated, devious, nonjudgmental, nonmoralistic, and non-confrontational. Australians, in contrast, are the most direct, blunt, outspoken, some would say insensitive, people in the English-speaking world.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Please forgive me, Mother. I apologize for saying 'fuck.'" Then he straightened and addressed Doug. "Which, by the way, was repeated sixty-seven times in this particular film. It has a running length of ninety-four minutes. So last night while watching it, she heard fuck, or a derivative thereof, spoken every one and a half minutes, give or take a few seconds. But if my saying fuck offended her, then I'm fucking sorry.

Lucky ain't a puppy no more and he don't bark for just any old reason. It takes a mailman, a squirrel, a car, a bird, a blowing leaf, or a tumbling scrap of paper to get him stirred up now.

Don't talk. Shut up and feel.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.