Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness.
[Her] love and tenderness. . . gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.
War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here. " She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning.
Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.
There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.
Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love.
Tenderness is the infancy of love.
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an 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?
You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.
In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.
Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande
Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.
Be missionaries of God's tenderness!
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.