Sensitive Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• [Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.

  Lotte Lenya

  Hands, Brecht, Herring

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• Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

  Myrtle Reed

  Anger, Tears, Weapons

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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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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• The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Sex, Issues, Religion

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• William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism.

  Carol Bowman

  Views, Autism, Connections

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• I always say people would rather be nice than right. I like to be nice too, but come on. People frequently ask me, what is my definition of politically correct. My answer is always the same: the elevation of sensitivity over truth. People would rather be nice than right, rather be sensitive than true. Well, being nice and sensitive are important, but they're not more important than being right; they're not more important than the truth.

  Bill Maher

  Nice, People, Important

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• I would probably say I identified more with drama. I'm a really emotional, sensitive person. I'm family-minded and I'm the youngest of four kids. I have nine stepbrothers and sisters. And I love drama. I really do.

  Courteney Cox

  Drama, Kids, Emotional

  "Life imitates art for Courtney Cox Arquette". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2004.

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• I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.

  Steven Spielberg

  Needs, Matter, Able

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• There are a lot of guys who think that if they show weakness or vulnerability they're not sexy anymore or attractive. In my opinion, you can't be too open or too gentle or kind or sensitive. If you really want to work on a relationship and have one that lasts, you have to be willing to go deep into human psychology and emotion. If you don't want to go there, you can be a serial dater, and I guess that's okay, but if you want a relationship with a woman, you have to be introspective and look at yourself and your family and where you've been and where you're going.

  Megan Fox

  Sexy, Thinking, Guy

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Heart, Able

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Issues, Wind

  "Death of a Salesman at Fifty: An Interview with Arthur Miller". Interview With Colby H. Kullman, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

  Richard Simmons

  Emotional, Who I Am, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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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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• Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Mutual Benefit, Two

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• it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Winning, Talking

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• Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

  Masiela Lusha

  Break, Complexes

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• Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving;
  Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

  Richard Realf

  Hands, Giving, Silence

  Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1898). “Poems”

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• Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Powerful, Exercise, Marine

  "In the Darkened Sea, a Deaf Whale Is a Dead Whale" by Pierce Brosnan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2014.

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• I use mainly products by Dermalogica. They have specialized formulas to target specific skin needs, which I like. It works well for my sensitive skin.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Skins, Needs, Target

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• I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

  Luise Rainer

  Acting, Cant

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• First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues. For someone of his stature there is very little for him to notice, ya know? He's so insulated by the people who surround him and by his own popularity. And yet Elvis will still find little things. He'll take the time to be gentle with people.

  Bill Bixby

  Men, Issues, People

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• No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

  John Milton

  Perseverance, Done, Worthy

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.181

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• I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.

  Shay Mitchell

  Girl, Strong, Men

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