Tenderness Quotes - Page 5

• For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

  Anne Hutchinson

  Church, Desire, Looks

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• I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

  Tony Curtis

  Navy, Pacific

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• Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

  Ida Lupino

  Age, Path, Thirteen

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

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• The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Paris, Glasses

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• A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Men, Special

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind; that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.

  Susanna Wesley

  Spiritual, May, Sin

  "Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings".

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• A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Strength, Mom, Mother

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• I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

  Ethel Waters

  Want, Affection

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• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

  George Eliot

  Love, Vanity, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Office, Humanity, Thousand

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.469

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• The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

  Wilfred Owen

  Girl, Flower, Drawing

  "Anthem for Doomed Youth" l. 12 (written 1917)

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• I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.

  Rod Taylor

  Struggle, Age, Radio

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• I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

  Kim Novak

  Beautiful, Rights, Lovely

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

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• The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

  Agatha Christie

  Children, Mother And Daughter, Years

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1969). “MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY”

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• A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Drama, Long

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!

  Samuel Gilman

  Life, Flower, Sun

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• (We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.

  Thomas J. Sergiovanni

  Educational, Heart, Needs

  Thomas J. Sergiovanni (1996). “Leadership for the Schoolhouse: How Is It Different Why Is It Important”, Jossey-Bass

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• There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

  Etel Adnan

  Different, World, Courageous

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• A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Hope, Women

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.97

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• People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Passion, Long Ago, People

  Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Heart, Warrior

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• What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

  Lord Byron

  Mind, Clay, Delicacy

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• He views life with tenderness and determination.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Determination, Inspiration

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• Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

  Laozi

  Men, Birth, Rigidity

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