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Quotes About Tender

[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome.
~ Sophia Loren
I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.
~ Anne Sexton
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
~ Bayard Taylor
Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.
~ Edward Caswall
They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true.
~ Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty
I suppose there is something in a women's nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood.
~ Bram Stoker
Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive.
~ Tennessee Williams
Her scent filled his nostrils. He was shocked to feel his throat tighten with a primal hunger. She smelled like her mother, but fresher, sweeter somehow. Some primitive male instinct warned him this was a bloom still on the vine, fragrant and tender and ripe. He scowled. She might be nectar to a another man, but to a MacDonnell, Dougal Cameron's daughter would be more deadly than nightshade.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Sylvia Day is the undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance. Her books are a luxury every woman deserves.
~ Teresa Medeiros
A lovely home atmosphere is one of the flowers of the world, than which there is nothing more tender, nothing more delicate, nothing more calculated to make strong and just the natures cradled and nourished within it.
~ Theodore Dreiser
There is something primal, even sexy about growing asparagus in the garden that is lost to those who are only familiar with the canned variety. During the harvest each spring, it is with joyous anticipation that I visit the garden daily, simply for the satisfaction of finding those tender new shoots reaching up towards the sun.
~ Kari Spencer
The Curé Noive had a sister who acted as his housekeeper, a lady with a moustache, whose piety was astringent, and who fostered a splenetic God in a heart which was outraged at anything gracious, tender, or lovable that life might offer. There are such cross-grained natures, made spiteful and furious by anything that looks like happiness.
~ Gabriel Chevallier
I stir the grasses where quail nestle, tenderly afraid. And through the countryside I go quietly, cautiously: I believe that trees and things have sleeping children over whom they hover watching.
~ Gabriela Mistral
Maybe it was the willingness to play that hinted at a tender, eternally newborn part in all humans. Maybe it was the willingness to play that kept one from despair.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
~ Brit Hume
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
~ Samuel Lover
I am tough but I have a soft side.
~ Bill Gross
I like to think I'm multi-faceted. Actually, my favorite roles are roles like in 'Far from Heaven.' Y'know. Soft people. Loving people.
~ Dennis Haysbert
It's nice to be thought of as soft and sensual.
~ Mariette Hartley
My softer side? I mean, I like to snuggle.
~ Rob Gronkowski
I usually play a softer character.
~ Brett Goldstein
A snowflake falls, so tenderly on your lips, I have learned to love this winter.
~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I'm a romantic.
~ Tom Cruise