#tender

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.


Voltaire


#hell #made #paradise #tender

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


#against #aside #disputed #great #learned

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.


Edward Gibbon


#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.


John Hawkes


#am #any #begin #bit #even

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.


John Lee Hooker


#apex #back #bar #bartender #boom

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.


Elizabeth Gaskell


#tenderness #vulnerability #equality

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.


Aaron Eckhart


#i #i think #men #tender #think

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


#every #feelings #love #okay #physical

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.


Walter Lippmann


#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.


Mary MacLane


#beautiful #benign #beyond #brilliant #fame