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Quotes About Sensitivity

The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.
~ Edmund B. Chaffee
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
~ Edmund Burke
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
~ Edmund Burke Feldman
Suffering does make us more sensitive until it crushes us completely.
~ Edmund White
His ribs were as visible as hands around a cup.
~ Edmund White
Your tiny hand is frozen, let me warm it in mine.
~ Anonymous
No one is listening until you fart.
~ Anonymous
Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door.
~ Anonymous
He knows when you're happy He knows when you're comfortable He knows when you're confident And he always knows when you have carrots.
~ Anonymous
The ear of jealousy heareth all things.
~ Anonymous
A racing mind that reacts sensitively to little things indicates thinking that has lost its spiritual strength. Meditation restores that power.
~ Anonymous
Não me agarre com tanta força senhor mas percebi que tinha de me prender assim, não por minha causa, por ele, não disse - Não fale no meu irmão mais velho por saber que não ia falar e a prova que não ia falar estava em que quase não conseguia mexer-me, a quantidade de alturas em que devíamos dizer - Pai e não dizemos
~ António Lobo Antunes
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
~ Anthony Daniels
To be in the state called love you must be sensitive to the uniqueness and beauty of every single thing and person around you.
~ Anthony de Mello
Cómo liberarse de un apego? Muchos suelen intentarlo por medio de la renuncia. Pero renunciar a unos cuantos compases de la sinfonía, hacerlos desaparecer de la conciencia, origina precisamente la misma clase de violencia, conflicto e insensibilidad que el aferrarse a ellos. Lo único que se consigue, una vez más, es endurecerse.
~ Anthony de Mello
Lou Reed: I am so susceptible to beauty.
~ Anthony DeCurtis
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
~ Anthony Doerr
Marie-Laure is glad to hear a smile enter his voice. But beneath it she can sense his thoughts fluttering like trapped birds.
~ Anthony Doerr
The more sentimental, the better.
~ Anthony Doerr
Worse yet, adolescents will be sensitive to hurt puppies, to starving children in distant countries, to a friend with a problem. But not to us, their parents. They do take us totally for granted.
~ Anthony E. Wolf
There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we're so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that's how it is. It's why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring. There are narrow lines between which all public conversations have to take place and even a single poorly chosen word can bring all sorts of trouble down on
~ Anthony Horowitz
There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we're so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that's how it is. It's why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring.
~ Anthony Horowitz
There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we're so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that's how it is. It's why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring. There are narrow lines between which all public conversations have to take place and even a single poorly chosen word can bring all sorts of trouble down on your head.
~ Anthony Horowitz
The trouble with this place is that everyone is super-sensitive and you can all too easily get accused of favouritism. I'm just telling you the facts. He was very ambitious. He'd have stabbed his own mother if it would help him to get cast.
~ Anthony Horowitz