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Quotes About Sensitivity

The terrorists haven't won, and we should tell them in plain English, 'No, there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'
~ Renee Ellmers
But braking is so difficult, especially in single-seaters. You're millimetres from locking up in the braking zones. Having to feel that through the hands? You don't get anything like the same feedback when you hit a pedal and feel it push back against you.
~ Billy Monger
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
~ Margot Asquith
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
~ Rollo May
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
~ Susan Griffin
There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.
~ Olive Schreiner
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
~ Joan Baez
Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.
~ Brenda Ueland
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
~ William Hazlitt
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.
~ Stephen Leacock
I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.
~ Bennett Miller
When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I'm a guy where my perfect pitch has been altered by the fact that I usually tune up to what's going on. When I was a kid, it was horrible! If two notes were playing right next to each other, and they were dissonant, it would drive me nuts. If it was something that sounded like it was in between notes, it'd make me cringe.
~ Thundercat
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
~ Lee Konitz
I'm emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.
~ Ray Liotta
I think, for me, personally, I try to be sensitive to issues as I learn about them. And I also try to constantly become not only a certain type of person but also become more in tune to the issues I'm covering. As I get older, I think that things just affect me more.
~ Lynsey Addario
I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
~ Victoria Pendleton
I respect anybody that is very in tune with their feelings.
~ Blackbear
I much prefer people who are very in tune with themselves, very musically inclined - no pretty boys.
~ Lydia Hearst
When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me.
~ Thomas Heatherwick
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
~ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
I'd like to be with a guy who's in touch with his feminine side. He should be a lover of art, music and culture. A guy with a sense of humour, openness and emotional maturity is a big turn-on.
~ Lisa Haydon