Tenderness Quotes

439 Tenderness quotes by 318 unique authors

The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of… — Ann Brashares
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have… — Tennessee Williams
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her… — Philip Pullman
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody — Barbara Mertz
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either… — W. Somerset Maugham
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like… — Lord Byron
Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness.… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of… — Vladimir Nabokov
Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when… — Mitch Albom
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,… — H.G. Wells
a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the… — David O. McKay
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character… — Philip Pullman
Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn… — Kay Ryan
Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat?… — Jane Austen
I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought… — Sue Monk Kidd
… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a… — Steve Toltz
How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we… — Wendell Berry
I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care,… — Nhat Hanh
Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only… — Ezra Taft Benson
That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for… — Janet Fitch
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that… — George Eliot
She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see… — Paulo Coelho
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course,… — Victor Hugo

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