I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Caught up in the tenderness of the touch,Joey couldn't answer. Everything, he realized. He'd risk everything for Liam.” — A.E. Wasp Copy Share Image
“Allow the hammer of pain to split open the stone armor of your hardness; exposing the tenderness and beauty of your sweet… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“She'd get out of the shower the next morning, and it would be written in the steam on the mirror. Dance. Dress.… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
“...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor,… — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Copy Share Image
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Soft and sharp at once, an aching tenderness edged with sorrow, naked proof of a heart already broken.” — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific. — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and… — Maurice Bejart Copy Share Image
A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Clicking it off, he reached his gloved hand out to cup her cheek with a tenderness he’d never shown her before. “Courage,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Think schnitzel, and you usually think veal or pork: pounded into tenderness, battered, and fried to a golden magnificence. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
“As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Kindness reveals concern and respect for others. Tenderness brings happiness and inner peace to the heart. — Humaira Copy Share Image
“Your tenderness has pervaded into the very pore of my being. Last night I inhaled the fragrance of the moon!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“She could fade and wither- I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint … Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
