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 heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands. — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very… — Kim Novak Copy Share Image
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“It should, as Chekhov said, prepare us for tenderness. And in this regard it starts, I think, with intention… Our intention is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.” — James Gavin Copy Share Image
“However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
“I felt such a well of tenderness for this dear old body. Every piece of it proclaimed how tired it was, but… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
I know a lot of artists and chefs don't talk about this, but sometimes you just don't get to the finish line.… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“Can I touch you?” His lashes closed, resting on the tops of his tanned, sculpted cheeks as his smile grew broad. “You… — Linda Kage Copy Share Image
She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his… — Rachel A. Marks 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
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
If you put a little bit of my love in your heart, every tenderness will have a meaning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A man, without at least a pinch of femininity, will never be a gentleman. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
Your greatest strength is from the gentleness and tenderness of your heart. — Regina Malabago Copy Share Image