Quotes About Sensitivity

You aren't thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn't it?

She stepped aside to let him pass. She followed him to the car and watched him get laboriously into the front seat. As she welcomed him silently to the human race, the stab of discovery made her tremble a little. Somebody walked over my grave, she thought, probably Jem on some idiotic errand.

Cry about the simple hell people give other people—without even thinking.

lo hizo sumamente bien: nunca estaba demasiado cansado para jugar al escondite, ni demasiado ocupado para inventar historias maravillosas, ni demasiado absorto en sus problemas para no escuchar con toda seriedad una queja. Cada

I know what you mean, boy...You aren't thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn't it?

I wondered if anybody had ever called her "ma'am" or "Miss Mayella" in her life; probably not, as she took offense to routine courtesy. What on earth was her life like?

Jem restrained me from further questions. He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn't do to push him any. Jem

Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common.

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- Sir? -until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Questioning ourselves for being oversensitive is a common way that women, in particular, disqualify our legitimate anger and hurt. ...The fact that some of us feel more vulnerable than others in a particular context does not mean we are weak or lesser in any way.

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don't trust it, I have to investigate the source.

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

She hadn't been hurt in any real way, had she? No one had treated her badly. I must just be overly sensitive to things, she convinced herself.

En muchos casos, el dolor se puede mitigar y suprimir mediante otro dolor diferente. La sensibilidad es algo completamente relativo.

You don't get it, do you? Person A understands Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A.

En el mundo hay gente educada y gente con tacto. Ambas son buenas cualidades, pero en la mayoría de los cados el tacto supera a la educación

It was a small soft hand. I thought my heart might break in two.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

I went into the room and sat next to Linus on the bed. I put my hand on his shoulder. I was always surprised at how soft other people were. I thought I felt his heartbeat, although it could have been my own.

Sometimes we cannot see and don't want to see because we are blinded. We need eye salve to put on our eyes. We cry out for revival, and yet God says, "I want to open your eyes so you can see what is before you. Revival has a face and a name. It lies bleeding on the roadside." If we want to see revival, we need to begin with the one in front of us.

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important.