Quotes About Sensitivity

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.

I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can.

I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it.

For artists to feel a real emotion to your partner is very important.

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.

God may be screaming at us through our physical body while we look for (and prefer) a more "spiritual" signal. The reality is that often our bodies know our feelings before our minds.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.

?inasi, neriman'?n sesindeki bütün perdeleri, mübala?a ile ifade edilmi? küçük bir teessürden hakiki ve büyük bir feverana giden ses merdiveninin her basama??n? bilirdi.

Fakat bu ????a çok bakam?yordum, bu güne? bile gözlerimden içeriye girince, kendinden daha büyük bir karanl?k denizine dü?mü? gibi derhal sönüyor ve içimin rengini al?yordu.

Ironically, I've spent years writing sensitive articles for women. Still, one lady wrote: "I have always viewed you with suspicion, knowing that if you were pushed to the limit, if you were forced to make a decision, you weren't really one of us after all. Deep down inside, you are a guy.

Agatha was a connoisseur of headaches, and was relieved at the transitory nature of this one.

The world is sensitive to our touch. It has a kind of 'Zing!' that makes it fly off in ways that are not imaginable classically. The whole structure of quantum mechanics may be nothing more than the optimal method of reasoning and processing information in the light of such a fundamental (wonderful) sensitivity. — Chris Fuchs

People take things differently. What one person would consider a helpful inquiry another might take as an aggressive criticism.

If you wanted lesbians to come to a discussion, too, it might be better not to call your group the Gay Men's Group.

It's funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive & intelligent & always one down & all the rest of it: then at thirty one finds one is a great clumping brute, incapable of appreciating anything finer than a kiss or a kick, roaring our one's hypocrisies at the top of one's voice, thick skinned as a rhino. At least I do.

Don't scorn your life just because it's not dramatic, or it's impoverished, or it looks dull, or it's workaday. Don't scorn it. It is where poetry is taking place if you've got the sensitivity to see it, if your eyes are open." --Philip Levine, describing what he learned from William Carlos Williams, via NPR

Don't scorn your life just because it's not dramatic, or it's impoverished, or it looks dull, or it's workaday. Don't scorn it. It is where poetry is taking place if you've got the sensitivity to see it, if your eyes are open.

Je me demande si la froideur des pères fait l'extrême sensibilité des fils.

I wonder if it's cold fathers who make the sensitive sons.

Finché il vento dei nostri pensieri, più violento di quello dell'equilibrio, tornerà presto a far volteggiare verso le nubi questa piuma così sensibile.