Quotes with sensitive

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  • P. J. O'Rourke Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Barbara de Angelis Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Barry Hannah Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
    Judicial opinions Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 N.Y. 458, 164 N.E. 545 (N.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Barbara Hepworth One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen People think I'm strong as hard as I look. But I've a very sensitive side and need to be loved by everyone.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Paul Cézanne Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
    Paul Cézanne
    French painter (1839 - 1906)
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  • Brigitte Bardot Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • James A. Froude Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Carole King Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Ouida Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Billy Crudup The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • A. E. Housman The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
    The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Samuel Johnson The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Billy Collins To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Jane Harrison 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.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Robertson Davies Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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