Quotes About Sensitivity

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

Dear intelligent people of the world, don't get shampoo in your eyes. It really stings. There. Done. Now fucking stop torturing animals.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.

When the cruelty of what one human could inflict on another stopped bothering them, it would be time to quit

It feels like cheating to look at a person when they're sleeping, Like you can see their innocent self.

Discovering you've missed your tea's perfect drinking temperature by a fraction of a second.

He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.

If God made the boy a creature of extreme and restless energy, with an inquisitive and eager mind, a sensitive little heart, and a romantic imagination, it is up to you (Cub leaders) to make full use of these insted of crushing them.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

[H]e doesn't reckon his dog has human feelings, but he sure lets you know when you hurt his instincts.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

He also became known as one who was quick to take offense, even if spoken to in jest.

The human mind naturally freezes the relentless passage of time by presenting us with static images of people, our culture, and our own self-identity. But if we were truly sensitive to evolution, we would realize these are only passing shadows in a world of ceaseless flux.

Rising Pressure The people around you generally appear sane and in control of their lives. But put any of them in stressful circumstances, with the pressure rising, and you will see a different reality. The cool mask of self-control comes off. They suddenly lash out in anger, reveal a paranoid streak, and become hypersensitive and often petty.

You always knew if a film was out of synch, however fractionally; you always knew if someone fancied you, however improbably; and you always knew when someone was on your tail.

If I stop to describe exactly how scared I was every time something scary happens, we'll be here for the next ten years. So do me a favour. At parts like this imagine how you'd've felt, and we'll both do fine.

He pushed a hand inside the blankets to feel her cheek, her shoulder. Trickles of water ran across her face as her hair melted. He was cold, but she was ice. She needed every scrap of warmth he could find for her...His sense of touch, enhanced by the Void and saidin, soaked in the feel of her. Her skin made silt feel rough.

When a rat wins a fight, the number of testosterone receptors increases in the ventral tegmentum and accumbens, increasing sensitivity to the hormone's feel-good effects.10