Highly Senstitive Quotes & Sayings

For the sight of him inflicted such strange tremors in my mind and body that I reacted as a tender shoot must at the first touch of the sun's rays, as it awakens to a joyful beginning. — April Grey

There is no joy in the finite; there is joy only in the Infinite. — Anonymous

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. — William James

The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media. — Ravi Zacharias

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day. — Hugh Shelton

I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war. — Hideo Kojima

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure. — John Hodgman

We have no idea any more what it means to feel guilty. The communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them, murdurers have the excuse that their mothers didn't love them. And suddenly you come out and say: there is no excuse. No one could be more innocent in his soul and conscience than Oedipus, and yet he punished himself when he saw what he had done. — Milan Kundera

This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!
Homer Simpson — Matt Groening

Consider that the simplest social interactions between two people requires performing an astonishing array of tasks: interpreting what the other person is saying; reading body language and facial expressions; smoothly taking turns talking and listening; responding to what the other person said; assessing whether you're being understood; determining whether you're well received, and, if not, figuring out how to improve or remove yourself from the situation. Think of what it takes to juggle all this at once! And that's just a one-to-one conversation. Now imagine the multitasking required in a group setting like a dinner party.
(p237) — Susan Cain

This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation. — Stephanie Cutter

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells. — Flannery O'Connor

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. — Henry Adams

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies. — Gary Hamel

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. — Flannery O'Connor

The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss. — Warren Buffett