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Quotes About Tender

My dearest, tenderest one, I love the star-infused melancholy of your face,
~ Alexander Blok
The only good things I've seen emerge from a steamer are tamales, couscous, and dumplings - maybe the occasional artichoke or delicate fish fillet. But baby turnips with their tender greens still attached should be boiled in water as salty as the sea until their flesh is silky and soft.
~ Samin Nosrat
Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.
~ Ashley Wagner
I think I'm a really sweet guy, kind of shy and nice and stuff.
~ Hunx
You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet.
~ Eliza Dushku
O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).
~ Richard Baxter
It were a good strife amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.
~ Richard Sibbes
What do the Scriptures speak but Christ's love and tender care over those that are humbled?
~ Richard Sibbes
With humans... Leo felt helpless. They broke way too easily.
~ Rick Riordan
It was the kind of love (lust, to be honest about it) that survivors of disasters must practise – or people who are anticipating disaster – free of all restraint, savage at times and yet strangely tender and affectionate.
~ Kate Atkinson
The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.
~ William Shakespeare
If our roots are tender and new to absorb the riches of Christ, we shall grow automatically with the riches we assimilate.
~ Witness Lee
now. She reaches out and touches the scar at my neck. It's almost healed, but it's still tender. 'It's the only one that shows.' 'What?' She smiles sadly. 'Look at you, Otto. You're a classic, you know that? Walking wounded. A bullet to the heart, endlessly repeated.' My mouth is suddenly dry. I go to speak, but she shakes her head, then turns and orders two more whiskies. Doubles.
~ David Wingrove
sparks are fragile things, and they need careful attention.
~ Deanna Raybourn
He's not coming back. Maybe I do know this after all. Goodbye. I say to him in my head. I say it tenderly. I try to tell him with that one word how sorry I am.
~ Deb Caletti
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Amy Grech has a cinematographer's eye, and a surgeon's hand—at once brutal and tender, unsettling yet humane. These stories linger like traces of an acid trip. Highly recommended!" — Jay Bonansinga, National Best-Selling Author of Twisted, Frozen, and The Sinking of the Eastland
~ Jay Bonansinga
We are encompassed on all sides by the Almighty. "His tender mercies are over all His works," "steadfast love surrounds him who trusts in the Lord," and "underneath are the Everlasting Arms." Over, around, underneath. We are enfolded. Can you think of a safer place to be?
~ Elisabeth Elliot
But finally my own version of God came to me in a dream, complete with a name: Corambe. He was a warm and compassionate being with a tender and unwavering regard for me. He had the humanity of Jesus and the radiant beauty of the angel Gabriel. He was graceful and poetic and ever attentive to my feelings. And though he was a male, he nonetheless dressed oftentimes in women's clothes.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart? Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
It does not emphasize the ruling Caesar, or the ruthless moralist, or the unmoved mover. It dwells upon the tender elements in the world, which slowly and in quietness operates by love; and it finds purpose in the present immediacy of a kingdom not of this world. Love neither rules, nor is it unmoved; also it is a little oblivious as to morals. It does not look to the future; for it finds its own reward in the immediate present
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Sometimes when he would tell me those stories his eyes would fill with tears. People used to say he was sentimental, but it was because he cared. He felt everything deeply. People around here used to call a man like him 'soft.' 'Maybe so,' he used to say, 'but I'm always hard when I have to be, you know that.' He was full of little double meanings like that, my husband.
~ Alistair MacLeod
Lorsque tu verras une bonne D'enfants, et non autre personne, Assise au milieu d'un tender Ou wagon de chemin de fer, Découvres-toi sur son passage, Salut à son noble visage ! Moralité A bonne en tender, salut. " (Fables de Joinville)
~ Allais a
A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.
~ Allison Pearson