Sensitivity Quotes

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Private matters should be dealt with privately, out of respect for everybody concerned

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

'English Vinglish' is simple; that's why people like it. The film has simplicity and sensitivity. There is no melodrama. Some things have been conveyed just through expressions and no lines.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I bruise like a grape.

Growing up in Westboro, there was a culture of celebrating death and tragedy... a very calloused way of seeing other people's pain. After I left, it took me a while to be able to really empathize with what it must have been like for the loved ones of people whose funerals we protested.

It's very counterintuitive to boil down something so personal, something that requires privacy. All of a sudden, you open it up to the world and put it in a context where you could easily trivialize what you've done. If people sense that discomfort, they're not wrong.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

People who see themselves as victims are known not to be sensitive to the suffering of others.

This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

We have to go back to the memories of 9-11. If that memory doesn't do anything to you as an American, then you're not really that sensitive a human being.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

I'm so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It's so bizarre to me... I do have those qualities, and I just don't think there's anything wrong with them.

The people did not elect you to debate the size of the crowd at your inaguaral.