We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.
You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get...
It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bi...
For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs of Innocence Cruelty has a human heart And jealousy a human face, Terror the human form divine, And secrecy the human dress. The human ...
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.
Only women understand the sensitivity of the soul, men are ambitious and ruthless.
I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.
I went to 11 different schools. It was a fantastic adventure, but I was incredibly sensitive and needed a bit more stability.
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
The fact is that more and more people are developing a sensitivity to gluten, without necessarily being allergic to it.
As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
I like a guy who's sarcastic, serious, sensitive - even just silent. But you have to do it at the right times. That's sexy. To me, it reflects intelligence.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
