#sensibilities

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. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities. ↗

— Peter Davison

#contact #difficult #emotions #own #people

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. ↗

— Brit Hume

#easily #exquisitely #feelings #greatest #greatest things

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#constantly #done #enjoy #feel #feel good

Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities. ↗

— Kent McCord

#child #children #forget #frequently #her

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#belonging #entirely #feeling #hostage #me

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bodies #cobbled #desire #driven #human

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#beverage #coarse #favorite #intellectual #naturally

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#fan #i #music #musical #often

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#decline #dose #double #like #sensibilities