Sensitive Quotes - Page 26

• A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation will throw it out of whack and shut it down. A couple can wind up paying the ultimate price for trying to have it all - losing it all.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Children, Couple, Moving

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Thinking, Hands, Stones

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

  Ben Yagoda

  Endeavor, Good Writers

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• There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size was a torment. Being sensitive little beasts, they became overstimulated by superfluous numbers of their own kind. They had tried to escape, but with pitiable irony, all tried to escape together.

  Sally Carrighar

  Numbers, Solitude, Together

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• It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Heart, Buddhism

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• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  Kate Walsh

  Stuff, Medication

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Believe, Buddhism

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• For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a flash. There's an electric quality to it, a burning heat.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Quality, Energy

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• I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  People, Actors

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Running, Couple, Boys

  "Ben Mendelsohn: from Erinsborough to Hollywood via Gotham" by Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.

  Jack McBrayer

  Jobs, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Thinking, Long, Quality

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• I find that the majority of the actors I've worked with are extremely sensitive people and very spontaneous people. That's why I always say I'll never date an actor, because they're in love with you one day and the next day they're not.

  Ellen Muth

  Love You, Next Day, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'

  Homer

  Baby, Population, Letters

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• George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

  Cesar Romero

  Play, Gone, May

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• Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

  Damon Albarn

  Writing, Years, Long

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• I'm proud of The Hangover, but to be in movies like this, which are really the only places I can get work, it's really quite the opposite of what I am. I like sensitive art-house movies. I'm not even much of a partier. I mean, I'll drink myself into oblivion alone in my car.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Art, Hangover, Mean

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.

  Carol Leifer

  Sweet, Jobs, Smart

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• I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.

  Meaghan Rath

  Strong, Heart, Ambition

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

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• The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always on the defensive… To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defending… The man who is truly meek never pities himself, he is never sorry for himself. He never talks to himself and says, “You are having a hard time, how unkind these people are not to understand you.

  Martyn

  Sorry, Mean, Hard Times

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• Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

  David Suzuki

  Bird, Hydrogen, Canaries

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. August 29, 2003.

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• I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.

  Beth Gibbons

  Emotional, Sensitive Person, Impulsive

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• The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

  Rollo May

  Strong, Symphony, Mature Person

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• On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.

  Ferdinand von Mueller

  Beauty, Sadness, Inspire

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• Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible.

  Joy Davidman

  Christian, Men, Greed

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