Quotes with tender

  • 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.

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  • Sir John Lubbock Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Billy Gardell 'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Ben Miles English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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  • Anne Hutchinson For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Bill Hybels God is righteous and just, holy and tender, responsive and sympathetic. He is willing--anxious even--to hear from you. Moreover, he is willing to act on your behalf.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bayard Taylor Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Josh Billings Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Mary Buckley Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
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  • Aaron Eckhart I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Anita Loos If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Marcel Proust In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Adam Mickiewicz In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
    You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
    Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
    The worms of memories to work you woe.
    Crimean Sonnets The Grave of the Countess Potocki
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  • Bell Hooks In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Selma James It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today - to women.
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  • Peter Ustinov Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Barry Cornwall Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • François Fénelon Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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