Sensibilities Quotes

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar. — Thorstein Veblen
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting… — Arthur Helps
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. — Thomas de Quincey
My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities — Camryn Manheim
We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the… — Brit Hume
No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature. — Thomas Jefferson
Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible. — Zeno of Citium
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living… — Ashley Montagu
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. — Stanley Hauerwas
In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing.… — Terry Rossio
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property… — Clarence Darrow
Iâ€™m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with… — Edmund Morris
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to… — Thomas R. Marshall
In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone. — Jacques Santer
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, — E. O. Wilson
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities… — Jane Goodall
Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular… — Talal Asad
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and… — Hiram Powers
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion… — Brian Ferneyhough

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