Tender Quotes

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.