Sensitives Quotes & Sayings

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles. — Maya Angelou

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory. — Malcolm Bradbury

But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored. — Donald Trump

If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction. — Bob Myers

He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble and decadent lust as something spiritual and Socratic.
And why not? If it meant he had to end his days on some Mediterranean island writing lyric prose for Faber and Faber and literary criticism for the New Statesman, running through successions of houseboys and 'secretaries', getting sloshed on Fernet Branca and having to pay off the Chief of Police every six months, then so be it. Better than driving to the office in the rain. — Stephen Fry

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. — Thomas Jefferson

You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself. — Louis Kahn

I'm sure I look like a disaster, — Lauren Oliver

In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time. — Will Patton

Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose - seeking the best for others and seeking the growth of the beloved, which is to say everyone. — Philip Gulley

As she watched him, this tall young man with the new beard and the direwolf prowling at his heels, all she could see was the babe they had laid at her breast at Riverrun, so long ago. — George R R Martin