Tenderness Quotes
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
Ingrid Bergman -
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
Aaron Eckhart
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And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.
Han Suyin -
I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.
George Eliot -
Tenderness is a virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
Saint Bernard -
Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
Chogyam Trungpa -
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
William Faulkner -
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Marjorie Holmes -
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.
Walker Percy -
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.
Michel Foucault -
The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.
Carolyn Forche
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At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
Albert Camus -
When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness.
David Jeremiah -
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.
William James -
Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.
Brennan Manning -
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 from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.
Kay Ryan -
Love can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.
Annette Messager
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people.
John Ruskin -
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
Mo Udall -
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay
William S. Burroughs -
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, and to accept what tears us apart.
Victor Hugo