#tender

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#anything #express #feel #kind #say

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

#death #never #our #repent #severity

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#good #great #nurturing #patience #persistent

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

— Peter Thomson

#sensitive #tender #ton #touch #worth

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#desperately #handing #i #me #out

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#against #aside #disputed #great #learned

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#did #dire #drinks #get #how

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice. ↗

— Horace

#keeps #minds #often #others #tender

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#arms #children #made #mother #sleep