Public Tenderness Quotes & Sayings

Oh God, if the mechanism of the consciousness itself was going to go wrong, then what was one to do? Hang it all, one did one's bit! Was one to be let down absolutely? — D.H. Lawrence

truth is, I look upon both candidates in the same light; and should think myself a traitor to the constitution of my country, if I voted for either. If every elector would bring the same consideration home to his conscience, we should not have such reason to exclaim against the venality of pts.5 But we are all a pack of venal and corrupted rascals; so lost to all sense of honesty, and all tenderness of character, that, in a little time, I am fully persuaded, nothing will be infamous but virtue and public-spirit. — Tobias Smollett

All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person. — Graeme Simsion

I'd have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me.
I'd have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn't pushed me first." ~Cassandra Palmer — Karen Chance

I wish Rick would be gang-raped by a bunch of Muslim garbage collectors. — Augusten Burroughs

It'll never get well if you pick it. — Noel Coward

Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity ... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of science: we become more and more conscious of the fact that the universe is cognizable. — Georges Lemaitre

In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public. — Edmund Burke

your boss at work, or your spouse, or a group of college students via YouTube? — Matt Morris

We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered. — Frederick Lenz

We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. — Mike Pence

My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad. — John Dryden

Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen. Only a little true tenderness had been mixed into her love. Mostly it had been compounded out of vanity and complacent confidence in her own charms. Now she had lost and, greater than her sense of loss, was the fear that she had made a public spectacle of herself. — Margaret Mitchell

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch. — Anne Enright

WHAT ARE YOU DOING AFTER THE ORGY? — Jean Baudrillard

To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class. — Sandra Cisneros

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament. — Bob Brown

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The human voice is the organ of the soul. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If it stayed the same, It can do it again. But if it changed once, It can change again. All — Nick Davis