Quotes About Sensitivity

The adult supervisors had zero psychic sensitivity and, since they were mortally afraid of going anywhere near an actual Visitor, never ventured far into a haunted zone. Instead, they hung around on the sidelines, being old and useless, and shouting orders that were utterly out of sync with whatever was going on.

He turned to face her, his body tingling. She gave a little shudder. "Did you feel that too?" she asked. "Yes," he said softly, "but don't talk." She pushed him away. "It was our sensor webs, you fool. Something's triggered them.

Okay...' I hurried on. 'But why me?' 'You're a girl,' Lockwood called. 'Aren't you supposed to be more sensitive?' 'To emotions, yes. To nuances of human behavior. Not necessarily to secret passages in a wall.' 'Oh, it's much the same thing.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

Medömkan är som fisar. Man kan stå ut med sin egen men klarar inte av någons annans.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

her shoulder blades, and just below there.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

If it upsets you better not recall it." --from The Chalk Garden

If it upsets you better not recall it.

La enfermedad no es catástrofe sino danza de la que podrían estar ya surgiendo nuevas construcciones de la sensibilidad.»

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

Intolerance is the Do Not Touch sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

always leave a party when people begin to play the bongos.

There are breeds of hunting dogs that are never so happy as when a gun is sounded. But not a collie. It seems as if this breed, having worked so long as man's companion, has learnt that such sharp, savage sounds may mean hurt.

My heart was an onion making me cry.

Startups are different: too much budget is as harmful as too little—as countless dot-com failures can attest—and startups are extremely sensitive to midcourse budgetary changes.

The PC [political correctness] movement exists not in order to improve the well-being of those whose oppression it purports to combat. Rather, its purpose is to wrap its proponents in a kind of verbal comfort-blanket.

excuse my squeamishness about the gooey whites of soft-boiled eggs.

She touched his sleeve, drawing her hand away at once, as if burned by the contact, but with practiced subtlety.

I realise there was little we could say to each other that wouldn't inflict some sort of pain. ... It was easier for people living in the aftermath to ask nothing rather than trespassing on each other's fragile memories. p240

Lots of people don't think little kids understand what adults are thinking or doing, Sometimes they - the adults, I mean - behave as if children are deaf and can't hear what's being said right in front of them. But none of that is true: they do understand, and even if they don't know what the words mean, they can feel the emotions behind the words.

I'd rather have a bleeding heart than a frozen one, or perhaps no heart at all.