Quotes About Sensitivity

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

You're prone to mood swings." Mood swings? he stopped halfway down the steps. "Women have mood swings. Not men.

How did you notice that?" "Because I notice you.

That works." The tightness in her chest eased. "Kind of seems one-sided though. You're giving up everything." "I get you." A simple statement that meant more than she could ever articulate.

I remembered to keep my body inclined low, to shrink myself smaller than he. He was sensitive about my greater height.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

Too much beauty can be hard to bear.

I can feel you, even though I can't see you.

Feelings have their own kind of wisdom.

I never cry at the theatre. It seems to me that I feel things far too deeply, too deep down in my heart, to---to splash on top!

I always related to the pain of others; I had become numb and unaware of my own.

I have particularly acute hearing, but Gran had obviously forgotten this fact.

There was a terrible pain in his voice; it reminded Halla of a wound hurt; she wanted suddenly to lick the hurt place with a soft warm, bear's tongue, to lick it clean and into a shape of healing. But there was no wound on him that could be seen, nothing she could do but lay a hand on his shoulder, uncertainly.

Understanding engenders care.

When Milton met Beethoven he said 'I've been told that you cannot hear.' And that was true, but Beethoven read Milton's lips and understood so he nodded his head 'yes.' Unfortunately Milton was blind so he didn't see the head nod and patiently awaited a response until he starved.

Why do I always...irritate others...without even realizing it? I'm not trying...to cause any problems.

When we "pass by" others and "notice them not," a degree of deprivation occurs. (Mormon 8:39.)

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

MAN No doubt about that—I can't even call 'em "girls" without getting hit by a lawsuit, so … (Grins.) You're a librarian? WOMAN Yeah. Well, we don't really use that term anymore, but, ahh … MAN Sure, of course! It's probably, like, "printed-word specialist" or something now, I suppose … WOMAN Exactly.

Technological immodesty is always an acute danger in Technopoly, which encourages it. Technopoly also encourages in-sensitivity to what skills may be lost in the acquisition of new ones. It is important to remember what can be done without computers, and it is also important to remind ourselves of what may be lost when we do use them.

Did he have extra-sharp hearing or just a sixth sense about the approach of his best friend?

Her mother had always seen things that other people couldn't; she was especially susceptible to ghosts and jinnis, who had appeared to her ever since she was a child.

it was like glass sandpaper being rubbed on my skin.