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#tenderness

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.


George Eliot


#death #great #never #our #repent

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.


Salman Rushdie


#distinguishes #first #great #imagination #industry

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?


Sally Struthers


#chopping #forbid #gets #god #kissing

I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.


Tahereh Mafi


#eyes #love #shatter-me #tenderness #love

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.


Victor Hugo


#becomes #insupportable #love #love is #most

You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husband Charles


Deborah Heiligman


#marriage #tenderness #way-to-be #faith

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?


Chrissie Hynde


#black-and-white #films #frank #frank sinatra #guys

My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.


Tahereh Mafi


#hurt #love #shatter-me #tenderness #love

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

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.


Thomas de Quincey


#amongst #ashamed #breathing #cows #creatures






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