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Letter "S" » sensitive
«Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.»
«I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
at the most, blow, clown, forces, intelligent, sensitive
«I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.»
«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.»
«In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
clearer, continents, extends, refined, refines, refining, sensitive, separate
«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?»
«In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.»
Author: Emma Goldman
| Keywords:
background, impressions, native, native land, reminiscence, reminiscences, sense impression, sensitive, tradition
«I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, beauties, curves, goddesses, gods and goddesses, Greeks, lines, rhythmical, sculpture, sensitive, subtly, throbbing, throbs
«It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
imagination, rather, sensitive, usually, wounded, wounding, wound up
«It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
axiomatic, contradiction, dealings, insensitive, insensitivity, sensitive
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