Sensitive Quotes

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This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive"… — P.J. O'Rourke
I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more… — Christopher Moore
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being… — Alan Watts
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you… — Marlon Brando
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very… — Dorothy L. Sayers
If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love? — Wendy Shalit
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a… — Pearl S. Buck
Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could.… — Eoin Colfer
In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was… — Sherwood Anderson
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. — David F. Wells
Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still… — C.S. Lewis
The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have… — Lynne Truss
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best. — Norton Juster
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy,… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
A cloak of invisibility? This is a highly sensitive piece of field equipment. What does he think? Some warlock pulled it out of his armpit? — Eoin Colfer
Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid… — Douglas Adams
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such… — Thomas Hardy
There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful,… — Gregory Peck

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