Sensitive famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.
-- Albert Hofmann -
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I'm not extra sensitive to handshakes. I shake hands all the time.
-- Amy Schumer -
What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
-- Barbara Kolb -
All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them
-- Ben Yagoda -
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.
-- Beth Gibbons -
If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.
-- Bill Parcells -
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 -
Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.
-- Candy Darling -
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
-- Charles Dickens -
I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
-- Christian Louboutin -
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
-- Claude Monet -
I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.
-- Craig Kilborn -
That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
We may all be sensitive to gluten from a neurological standpoint.
-- David Perlmutter -
Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.
-- David Suzuki -
When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.
-- Deborah Kerr -
Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.
-- Dianna Agron -
I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.
-- Edward Luck -
A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.
-- Ehud Olmert -
You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet.
-- Eliza Dushku -
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
-- Emily Post -
I'm actually very sensitive to energies, and when people are not aligned, I can feel that.
-- Emmanuelle Chriqui -
I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.
-- Fiona Apple -
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.
-- Frederick Rolfe -
The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.
-- George S. Clason -
I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.
-- Glenda Gilmore -
We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .
-- Gregory Bateson -
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
The economy is a very sensitive organism.
-- Hjalmar Schacht -
The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.
-- J. B. Priestley -
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
-- Jackson Browne -
I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.
-- James Blunt -
As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.
-- Jamie Foxx -
I use as sensitive a line as possible when I draw on the plate.
-- Jay Moore -
I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth -- and I know it.
-- Jean-Claude Van Damme -
I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.
-- Jean-Claude Van Damme -
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.
-- Jill Abramson -
Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.
-- John French Sloan -
No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.
-- John Milton -
I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.
-- John O. Brennan -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-- Kate Walsh -
Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.
-- Kin Hubbard -
You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible
-- Klaus Kinski -
You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.
-- Lauren Graham -
There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.
-- Lee Hsien Loong -
Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled
-- Leila Aboulela -
I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.
-- Leona Lewis -
I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.
-- Little Richard -
You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.
-- Lizzy Caplan -
[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.
-- Lotte Lenya -
I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.
-- Luise Rainer -
Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.
-- Lyle Lovett -
Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
-- Madeleine de Scudery -
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer
-- Mark Rothko -
I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.
-- Marla Gibbs -
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 always feel to much.
-- Marlon Brando -
Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.
-- Masiela Lusha -
It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.
-- Matt Dillon -
The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
-- Max Beerbohm -
Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!
-- Max Elliott Slade -
If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
-- Maya Lin -
Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.
-- Mehmet Oz -
My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
-- Mike Tyson -
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
-- Minor White -
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
-- Mo Rocca -
It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.
-- Morton Irving Seiden -
As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
-- Nadia Ali -
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
-- Norton Juster -
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
-- Peter Jennings -
Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.
-- Peter Rogers -
Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).
-- R. C. Sproul -
Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.
-- Ray Charles -
I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.
-- Rebecca De Mornay -
Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.
-- Robert Herjavec -
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
-- Robert Morgan -
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
-- Robert Penn Warren -
I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!
-- Ruth Draper -
I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
-- Samuel L. Jackson -
I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.
-- Serena Williams -
I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
-- Sia Furler -
None of us are too sensitive to live our purpose.
-- Sonia Choquette -
We're a bit sensitive to blood around here. I'm sure you can understand that.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.
-- Steve Vai -
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
-- Steven Pinker