Quotes About Sensitivity

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

Deeply moved, she poured the tea while they were finishing up. They came into the kitchen to replace the cleaning things, and she handed two cups to Om. Noticing the red rose borders, he started to point out her error, The pink one's for us, then stopped. Her face told him she was aware of it. What? she asked, taking the pink cup for herself, Is something wrong? Nothing, his voice caught . He turned away, hoping she did not see the film of water glaze his eyes.

Embarrassed and almost guilty because sometimes I feel that my mourning is merely a susceptibility to emotion. But all my life haven't I been just that: moved?

Rockefeller was sensitive about adults who behaved in a high-handed fashion toward him. Having assumed so much responsibility at home, he now thought of himself as a mature person.

He became known for breaking in wild horses for local farmers, a sight that drew admiring spectators to the village square. He tamed even the most refractory horses through a fine sensitivity to their nature rather than by his physical prowess. "If people knew how much more they could get out of a horse by gentleness than by harshness," Grant once observed, "they would save a great deal of trouble both to the horse and the man.

Like most people, Hamilton and Adams were preternaturally sensitive to flaws in the other that they themselves possessed.

I am not a good one to judge such things: I am too soft-hearted.

A lesson learned long ago: the human brain was much more sensitive to side-to-side displacement than front-to-back. An evolutionary quirk, presumably, like most things.

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Any kind of operation was a point of vulnerability.

Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone .

Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else - Or else what? said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. Or else it doesn't, you know.

She thought of herself, "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!

I didn't mean it!" pleaded poor Alice. "But you're so easily offended, you know!

Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.

You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

He was a man who evidently felt very little; she was a woman who felt, perhaps, too much.

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.