The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body… — Anne Enright 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
“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
Think schnitzel, and you usually think veal or pork: pounded into tenderness, battered, and fried to a golden magnificence. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
“[Hers] was an existence between heaven and earth... beyond her stretched as far as the eye could see... an immense space of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“He carries the lambs in His bosom." Here is boundless affection. Would He put them in His bosom if He did not… — SPURGEON C H Copy Share Image
“Another sob came, harder than the first, but she couldn't cover her face and her mastectomy scars at the same time when… — Kaylea Cross Copy Share Image
Self-love grows when you trust that the universe is on your side, form your desires from the heart and watch the higher… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When the tribal groups of december trade Seated in the figure of crocodile And songs are sung and deals discussed, are made… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
“And yet, even while they baffled him, they aroused within his heart a feeling he had never known before. When- which was… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
“Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.” — Brenna Yovanoff 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
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
“Soft and sharp at once, an aching tenderness edged with sorrow, naked proof of a heart already broken.” — Margaret Rogerson 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
“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
“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
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Love like an anvil had cracked my locked heart open and unleashed an excruciating flow of tenderness” — Krista Bremer Copy Share Image
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
...with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
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
Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole. — Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz Copy Share Image