tenderness quotes

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

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

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.