Quotes About Sensitivity

he tested his newfound abilities by guessing the time without looking at the clock. The numbers flickered in his head, just behind his covered eye, and he said out loud, "Three forty-seven P.M." He then looked over at the nightstand clock, which read 9:04 A.M. The ESP, he determined, came and went.

The leaves of Lajwanti* wither with the touch of human hands.' A

Probably hurts him to walk at all, and he couldn't really go faster, not without tripping himself. He's showing sense. This ought to make a big difference." I felt stung. I'd been hurting him, and I didn't know.

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned...

You see only with your heart, because your eyes miss what matters.

There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.

Sorrow is a near enemy to compassion and to love. It is borne of sensitivity and feels like empathy. But it can paralyze and turn us back inside with a sense that we can't possibly make a difference.

Don't be nice to me," she whispered, though she didn't move away. "I might cry if you are.

My blood pressure surges. Folks, unless you've walked the walk, never tell a widow it's time she moved on.

I have to believe that Adam was not the intended recipient of that hideous, disgusting picture. How do gynecologists do it all day, look between the legs of their patients and not just…just throw up?

I caught a sob before it quite broke, surprised at how quickly it had cut me.

The principle of equal chance is of such sensitivity that any serious doubt about the loyalty of all participants already renders the principle's application impossible. For it is self-evident that one can hold open an equal chance only for those whom one is certain would do the same.

saber convertirse en una oreja perfecta.

When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.

Nature designed our vestibular receptors to be extremely sensitive. Indeed, our need to know where we are in relation to the earth is more compelling than our need for food, for tactile comfort, or even for a mother-child bond.

Be very careful what you say. Daddy's being very strange about pussies at the moment.' Orla

Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic.

Gary'nin hat?rlayabildi?i kadar?yla Gerta,ilk defa bu kadar hassas görünüyordu.Kirpikleri titriyor,a?z? bir kö?eye do?ru seyiriyordu.'Mükemmel bir i? ç?kar?yorsun.Otis seni çok seviyor.

That sounds silly, doesn't it? Running away just because you don't want to hurt somebody's feelings? But did you ever think how much of our lives we spend,dodging and twisting and making things difficult for ourselves, to avoid hurting somebody's feelings. Even people with absolutely no claim on us?

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

Now Juan could not understand a word, Being no Grecian; but he had an ear, And her voice was the warble of a bird, ... So soft, so sweet, so delicately clear, That finer, simpler music ne'er was heard; The sort of sound we echo with a tear, Without knowing why - an overpowering tone, Whence Melody descends as from a throne.

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

Woman, you bray like an ass, and make no more sense." "Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.

For hands of gold are always cold, but a woman's hands are warm.