Tender Quotes

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

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.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

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

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

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

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

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

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.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.