Sensibility Quotes - Page 23

• When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

  Zadie Smith

  Character, Data, Language

  "Generation Why?" by Zadie Smith, www.nybooks.com. November 25, 2010.

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• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Punishment, Abuse, Double Standard

  Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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• In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

  Ivanka Trump

  Travel, Journey, Design

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• What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

  James Wolcott

  Stars, Curiosity, Tabloids

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• Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!

  Laurence Sterne

  Joy, Feelings, Sorrow

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• It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?

  Northrop Frye

  Important, Identity, Problem

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.346, University of Toronto Press

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• perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Museums, Average

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• I’ve never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie) I don’t know. I think those two guys you were with would qualify as primates, but then, that’s an insult to the primate and I don’t want Marvin to get pissed at me. He has higher sensibilities, you know? (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Two, Guy

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• For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Tasks, Three

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

  Emma Goldman

  Letting Go, Eye, Heart

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• I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

  Kij Johnson

  Dream, Lonely, Stars

  Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan

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• What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

  William Wordsworth

  Passion, Men, Soul

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.376

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• Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Passion, Heart

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 15 (1850)

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• House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Rain, Wind, House

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• My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

  Camryn Manheim

  Parent, Weight, Fit

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• The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere.

  George Monbiot

  Mean, Media, Class

  "Civilisation ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.

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• That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

  Charlie Hunter

  Want, Jazz, Kind

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• My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Bedtime, Steers

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• Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Too Much, Unhappiness, Crime

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• Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Years

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• The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Education, Attitude, School

  Elliot W. Eisner (2002). “The Arts and the Creation of Mind”, p.240, Yale University Press

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• I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Film, Release

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness.

  Salvador Bernal

  Prayer, Work, Reflection

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• Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities.

  Kent McCord

  Children, Pregnancy, People

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• The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility

  Gilles Deleuze

  Men, Feelings, Overcoming

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Nietzsche and Philosophy”, p.94, Columbia University Press

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