Quotes About Sensitivity

Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle.

When the armor's gone from you, you'll feel the pain of others too.

She had always been a person of ticklish sensibilities, easily overcome by the ordinary frictions of life.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But they are things that, well, you just have to see and feel. p.147

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you'll learn from books. But, there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes.

I've also been known to cry during MasterCard commercials.

the gaps in sensitivity displayed are vast. Concepts that have not often been surpassed For ignorance or downright nastiness - That the habit of indifference is less Destructive than the embrace of love, that crimes Are paid for never or a thousand times, That the gentle come to grief - all these are forced Into scenes, dialogue, comments, and endorsed By the main action, manifesting there An inhumanity beyond despair.

Never stand around saying 'Poor thing' and being pitiful when things are being killed. It makes them tough and harder to kill. Remember that!

El inteligente pobre es un observador mucho más fino que el rico inteligente. El pobre mira a su alrededor a cada paso que da, espía suspicazmente cada palabra que oye a las gentes que encuentra; a cada paso que da él mismo impone a sus pensamientos y sus sentimientos un deber, una norma. Tiene el oído fino, es impresionable, es un hombre experimentado, su alma tiene quemaduras.

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and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.

Aww, did we masturbate through the tears last night?

When he was this close to me, I could feel his palpable yearning. I could sense that gut-wrenching loneliness he'd suffered.

I'd witnessed how brutal this boy could be—he'd nearly beaten the man to death in front of me. Yet he was now touching my paintings gently, almost reverently. I felt like a spy, like this was a moment I was never supposed to share. It seemed . . . intimate. When he touched the cane, I swore I could feel him aching for those fields, for that rain about to fall.

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

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

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

To all things clergic I am allergic.