#sensitive

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#acquiring #china #designs #equipment #gave

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#been #neither #parents #sensitive #very

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally. ↗

— David Sedaris

#hate #sensitive #funny

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#sensitive #warm-hearts #heartbreak

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. We don't know any other way to live than by extremes because our emotional theromastat is broken. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#love

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

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#artists #compliment #dying #ego #hug

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children. ↗

— Columba Bush

#displays #father-in-law #i #i think #love

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#genius #likely #mediocrity #more #rise

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#area #been #before #early #elvis