Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.” — Jim Dodge Copy Share Image
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting… — George Howe Colt Copy Share Image
Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true. — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility,… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I… — Thomas R. Marshall Copy Share Image
To lose sensibility, to see what one sees, As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift, To hear only what one… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . .… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people,… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I'm not just interested in the thoughts I have, but also in others' thoughts, and why not carry those forward? That's why… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
“This embittered thought brought to her mind the several occasions upon which she might, had she been the kind of female his… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
