#tender

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#bartender #cool #could #dreaming #finally

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#distinguishes #first #great #imagination #industry

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. ↗

— John Sheffield

#forgive #love #most #other #part

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

— Robert Frost

#any #compassionate #generous #great #heart

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness? ↗

— Sally Struthers

#chopping #forbid #gets #god #kissing

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. ↗

— Bayard Taylor

#daring #loving #most #tender

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#america #bit #came #fear #immigrants

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. ↗

— Anne Seward

#eminent #failings #good #just #record

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#broken #could #ever #far #heart