Quotes About Sensitivity

Her daughter was not related in blood to Ellony Leckery, yet it seemed as if she'd somehow managed to inherit her namesake's rather fey nature. Pharinet, Valraven's sister, insisted young Ellony was far stronger, braver, and more robust than the original, but there was no doubt she was highly sensitive, and sometimes this affected her badly.

He wished he was made of stone, and did not have to feel anything.

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

He had always had difficulty in recognising an emotion.

I don't worry much about offending. I have long since learned that my approach to religion will offend someone; I just don't want to hurt anyone.

They know when another dolphin—or a human being—is pregnant or sick or injured.

Is Papa crying, do you suppose?' whispered John.

I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness.

I'm really scared of everything. I'm very, very emotional. I'm extremely soft!

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

People are soft. The whole world is. That's why you have to be careful what you say, careful what you post, careful what you wear.

Acting is kind of gay. It makes you soft. You got all these people combing your hair and putting a coat over your shoulders when you're cold. I don't want a coat over my shoulders!

The historical kings of England are all strong soldiers and leaders, but can you be a sensitive leader? It's the same in politics, we talk about how proud we are to have had two women prime ministers, but would we be less ready for a sensitive prime minister?

We would never do anything for the sole purpose of bumming people out or upsetting people.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

'English Vinglish' is simple; that's why people like it. The film has simplicity and sensitivity. There is no melodrama. Some things have been conveyed just through expressions and no lines.

Some things hit close to home with people, and it's going to be hard to tell someone who lost somebody on 9/11 that a 9/11 joke is funny.

There are just some things that I don't think jokes are good for.

I tend to think some things are off-limits. Not in the sense that you should not be able to say them, but you need some care about how and when you go into them. If you wanted to make a joke about concentration camps you should think twice. At least twice.