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Quotes About Sensitivity

we should instead ask God to break our hearts with the things that break His.
~ Tricia Goyer
If your child is oversensitive, or undersensitive, to stimulation, things like 'scratchy' clothes and too much light or noise can make her uncomfortable, anxious, distracted, or overwhelmed. That can lead to meltdowns for no reason that's apparent to you or other caregivers."1 A
~ Tricia Goyer
Sir, say no more.Within me 't is as ifThe green and climbing eyesight of a catCrawled near my mind's poor birds.
~ Unknown
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
~ Tucker Carlson
I'd say that I'm good at solving problems, doing analysis—stuff like that. What I'm not so good at is communicating with human beings." He stopped. "I mean, it's not that I can't do it, but I really prefer people who aren't sensitive. I like to have conversations with people on a purely intellectual level and not have to worry about what they're feeling or anything like that. Does that make sense?
~ Patrick Lencioni
My dear Miss Lamb,' he cried, taking her free hand, 'I hope I see you well. Quite well?' he said earnestly, meaning 'not too much raped?
~ Patrick O'Brian
I do hope Diana don't savage Henage on the way back,' said Jack, 'You might not think it, but he is a very sensitive cove, and he feels harsh words extremely. I remember when his father called him a vile concupiscent waste-thrift whoremonger he brooded over it the whole evening.
~ Patrick O'Brian
As I have said, the social contract is not the same in Catalonia as it is in France; superficially it is rougher in some ways, but beneath the surface it is often far more friendly, direct, and indeed more sensitive.
~ Patrick O'Brian
No animal suffers worse than a human being.
~ Patrick White
Peter thought that he had noticed the shine of tears in her eyes, though of course it couldn't be so, since he had never heard of cats shedding tears. It was only later he was to learn that they could both laugh and cry.
~ Paul Gallico
People who are too sensitive go crazy, remember that
~ Unknown
Is not our capacity to laugh and cry the measure of our humanity?
~ Paul Scott
A British traveler remarked, 'There are [fashions in Guatemala] which it would require more than common charity to speak of with respect...' FILL IN YOUR OWN GRIPES! ;-)
~ Paul Theroux
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
~ Unknown
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them ... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.
~ Tim Fargo
Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?
~ Ray Combs
A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"
~ Graeme Simsion
To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.
~ Isadora Duncan
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
~ Oscar Wilde
Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.
~ George Stillman Hillard