Sensitive Quotes
861 quotes by 739 authors
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Timing is a sensitive thing.
— Erin Morgenstern
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He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...
— Bohumil Hrabal
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Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said,…
— Elif Safak
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Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we…
— Alanis Morissette
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Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of…
— Douglas Adams
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If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we…
— Julian Barnes
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I could really appreciate him now - could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face, of his long, flawless body with my strong…
— Stephenie Meyer
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An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in…
— Knut Hamsun
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Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!
— Leo Tolstoy
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It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only…
— Susan Cain
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My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me…
— Portia de Rossi
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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
— J D Salinger
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For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch…
— Alan Watts
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America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception†because America is a very all-or-nothing…
— Max Brooks
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There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept…
— Anais Nin
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Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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You’re touching me,†I chided him. He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting every sensitive point I hadn’t even known I had. “No,…
— Ilona Andrews
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The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously…
— Knut Hamsun
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