Tender Quotes

705 Tender quotes by 522 unique authors

I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in… — John Oliver
Last night, we did the Threatdown -- God, it's hard to even talk about this -- and for the first time, I didn't mention bears.… — Stephen Colbert
I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them. — Andy Rooney
Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don’t let someone… — Zooey Deschanel
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or… — Dakota Fanning
I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny,… — Greer Garson
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
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry… — Susan Howe
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. — Dorianne Laux
All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you to do it… — Barbara Brown Taylor
I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. — Jackson Browne
Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care… — Don King
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread,… — Alexander Hamilton
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. — William Wordsworth
I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look… — Alexander Hamilton
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender. — Euripides
Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players… — Thomas M. Disch
It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the… — Richard Baxter
Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted… — Wallace Stevens
Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly… — Unknown Author
He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this… — Richard Dawkins
Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred… — John Angell James
If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken. — Kim Kardashian

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