#tend

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone. ↗

— Norah Vincent

#gender-stereotypes #loss #maleness #masculinity #tenderness

...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #memories #nothingness #poetry-quotes #tendrils

Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to enjoy suspending them. Even at the very moment when passion seizes her, it is perfectly natural for a Parisian woman to delay her final fall, as a way of testing the heart of the man into whose hands she is about to deliver herself and her future! ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#duplicities #future #heart #love #passion

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial." From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths ↗

— Kirk D. Sinclair

#human-nature #nature

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#pretend #richelle #richelle-goodrich #words #writing

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#christianity #gentleness #god #identity #tenderness

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ↗

— John Adams

#dare #kindly #knowledge #let us #means

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. ↗

— Woody Allen

#pedestal #place #tended #under #wife

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#common #communism #concord #danger #excellence

I could have had class. I could have been a contender. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#class #contender #could #had #i