quotes about Tenderness
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Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
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One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us
-- Dean KoontzSource : Dean Koontz (2011). “A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie”, p.170, Bantam
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I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
-- Ethel Waters -
Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.
-- Eugene Sue -
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
-- Frederick William RobertsonSource : Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons ...”, p.252
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All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
-- Marlene Dietrich -
Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande
-- Nathaniel Dorsky -
Tenderness is a virtue.
-- Oliver GoldsmithSource : "The Good-Natur'd Man". Play by Oliver Goldsmith, 1768.
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I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.
-- Robert BlySource : Robert Bly (1986). “Selected poems”, Harper Perennial
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Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
-- Rumi -
There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.
-- Tina Howe -
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I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.
-- Tony Curtis -
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair (1827). “Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait”, p.45