Tender Quotes

705 Tender quotes by 522 unique authors

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we… — J M Coetzee
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life. — Robert Louis Stevenson
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power. — Charles Lamb
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,… — Alexander Pope
If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite… — Anita Loos
Patience has tender feet. — Austin O'Malley
Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can… — Hafez
I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time… — Plato
God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so… — Darrin Patrick
Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision:… — Charles Harper Webb
Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace. — Unknown Author
We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to… — Robert Morgan
The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing… — Wayne Muller
True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe,… — Unknown Author
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into… — Robert Green Ingersoll
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any… — John L. Parker Jr.
At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power… — Murray Rothbard
Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee. — Henri Frederic Amiel
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it. — Djuna Barnes
Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I… — Neil Peart
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. — Martin Luther
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share… — William Gaddis

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