(284 quotes found)
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
Dan Quayle
“A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.”
Neal Boortz
“Is it the secret of the long-nosed Etruscans?/ The long-nosed, sensitive footed, subtly-smiling Etruscans, / Who made so little noise outside the cypress groves?”
D.H. Lawrence
“Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“I'm extremely-extremely sensitive. I can cry at the drop of a hat. I'm such a girl when it comes to that. Anything upsets me. I cry all the time. I cry when I'm happy too.”
Mandy Moore
“Latinos are very sensitive to different accents. I sort of lost my Mexican accent, and that's what they were looking for in this case — some sort of neutral accent that could be understood on both coasts and in different Hispanic communities: Puerto Ricans on the East Coast, Cubans in Fort Lauderdale and Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles.”
Jorge Ramos
“It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything”
Morton Irving Seiden
“Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.”
Nora Ephron
