Touchy Quotes

• In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Mirth, Graves

  'The Spectator' no. 68, 18 May 1711.

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• Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cat, Ego, Sense Of Humor

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

  Jody Watley

  Beauty, People, Black

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• People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

  E. B. White

  Motivational, Silly, People

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.131, Cornell University Press

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• I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

  Horace

  Order, Poetry, Tribes

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• Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

  Ayn Rand

  Loneliness, Achievement, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.348, Penguin

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• I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

  Plutarch

  Men, People, Fickle

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1874). “Plutarch's Morals”

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• Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

  Mark Russell

  Running, Long, People

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• I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

  Joel Stein

  People, Niche

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Huffy, Negative

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• Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

  Eugenia Price

  Laughter, Proof, Healed

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• Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it!

  Woody Allen

  Country, Children, Half

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• Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Real, Dysfunction

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ... all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Thinking, Smoking

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• And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Fall, Skulls

  Joseph Campbell (1983). “Historical atlas of world mythology”

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• The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

  Kobe Bryant

  Badass, Years, Bravery

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Comfort, Way, Stranger

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• I like action more than anything touchy-feely.

  Jordana Brewster

  Action

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

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• Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity

  Amin Maalouf

  People, Lazy, Together

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• My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Dad, Emotional, Thinking

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• I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

  Julie Burchill

  Beautiful, Easter, Hurt

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• You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Mean, Thinking, Rude

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

  Scott Baio

  Mean, Doors, Car

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

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• That's a very, very touchy subject, domestic violence. I think women don't realize is it's something that's very prevalent. It goes on, on a daily basis.

  LaToya Jackson

  Thinking, Domestic Violence, Goes On

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Relief, Alive

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