When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.” — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness. — Catherine Ingram Copy Share Image
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“you and I are black and white—a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things acquire a tenderness, a monstrous tenderness we don’t expect from them.” — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“But Mimi- her tenderness didn't have an easy visibility. You wondered what it would be, and after what terrible manifestations it would… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“For Sade, all tenderness is false, a deceit, a trap; all pleasure contains within itself the seeds of atrocities; all beds are… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you .” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Tho the dark be cold and blind Yet her sea-fog’s touch is kind, And her mightier caress Is joy and the pain… — Gary Kamiya Copy Share Image
When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through… — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near,… — Samuel Gilman Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love withsomeone, but that you “had… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
“Yesterday in the restaurant, she’d seen his sex appeal and roughness. At her house, she’d seen his danger. This morning, at the… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
“The sun spangled the big pond, and through the quivers of light, we watched scores of fat koi that swam there from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“What’s wrong?” he asked, and I motioned for him to take a seat. He listened quietly as I explained what had happened.… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
A pretty face you may not possess, but what I like about you is your tenderness. — The Temptations Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image