Top 414 Sensitive Quotes

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

I am a very sensitive person, especially when it comes to heart-to-heart conversations. I am straightforward and I expect the same from people.

My wife’s an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you’re really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism.

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?

I know what it’s like to feel distraught as I am an incredibly sensitive guy and feel for anything and everyone in pain, particularly my own sister.

As a lawyer, many a time I took up difficult and sensitive cases dealing with minorities’ and women’s rights. Yes, I constantly receive threats, and to be very honest, at times it is very scary. But I have to continue my work.

If the Chinese are sensitive about anything, it’s not having their people die.

When I began my search for the perfect skin care to fight the aging process, I noticed that my sensitive skin was reacting horribly to any product I used.

I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I’m really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones.

Friends comfort you in the time of need, offer sound advice and are a sounding board, are forgiving and nonjudgmental, perhaps most of all, show you compassion, care, and are sensitive toward you.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

I guess actors are very sensitive people. We’re porous.

I’m very sensitive – I’ll cry during every movie or commercial – but when it comes to my own feelings, I don’t really think about them that much unless I’m making music. Otherwise, I’m either checked out or laughing because that’s how I do regular stuff. I have a hard time talking about my feelings.

To me, the word ‘decadent’ is so difficult to use; it’s a very sensitive word, in a way.

Protect yourself by always having a record of what transpired or was said in any situation that might be considered sensitive.

I think ‘Dirty Harry’ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

I’m very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I’m very much a mommy’s boy.

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world… Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.

I’m pretty sensitive. My feelings get hurt a lot easier than people think, but I try take it all with grain of salt. For a relationship, I want someone who is really secure, confident and fulfilled, not tripping with what I do.

I’m not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I’ll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won’t answer her phone within one minute. I’m sensitive.

Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.

To get someone who is sensitive yet strong… Steve was that.

I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn’t seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don’t do this by being preachy and telling them that they ‘should’ do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what’s best in others.

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.

Basically I’m trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.

I wear sunscreen every single day – I just don’t go out of the house without it. I also try to get enough sleep, eat as healthy as I can and keep hydrated. I have very sensitive skin, and depending on what products are used on a shoot, my skin can break out in an instant.

In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They’re very thoughtful people – it makes sense to hear what they have to say.

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

I think people are getting more and more – unfortunately – inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

I’m not sensitive about my lisp, but a lot of people are, and it’s not the type of trait people should mock.

I’m a very sensitive guy!

I don’t mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you’ve got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.

In India, people tend to get categorised by their job or caste or colour. But in Kamathipura, despite their horrid living, it was truly eye-opening how kind and sensitive these women are.

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

The committee’s finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

I used to swallow people’s energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I’m too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don’t take as much in.

A non-invasive test that is sensitive and specific for the early detection of breast cancer is a goal worthy of our investment and dedication.

Old men do it better. We’re not so sensitive in certain areas.

When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I’d be better with girls. I’m quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.

My skin’s rather difficult to fix, and I’m incredibly sensitive.

Actors are sensitive freaks, but it amazes me that it is something that I haven’t improved on over the years.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

The kind of boy’s club I’m used to? It is definitely not a jock-y, frat-y kind of thing. They say, ‘I’m sensitive and nerdy,’ but actually, it’s like, ‘You’re a huge child and you’re terrified of women, but you don’t like sports, so you think that makes you less of a misogynist.’

I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn’t shy. I can be like a general. But I’ve got a shy side. I’m also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don’t let people in too much.’

I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me ‘yellow gal.’ I was caught in between both sides – nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls’ body mass – I personally think it is demeaning.

I think when you’re dealing with faith, you want to be as responsible and sensitive to the material as you can.

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

I’m very sensitive to salt. I always see and feel a big difference in my body when I eat it, so I try to consume salt in moderation.