Public Tenderness Quotes

#1. We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

Anne Enright

#2. Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

Adolf Hitler

#3. A French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn ours, so that he really spoke no language at all.

Henry Fielding

#4. There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

Paul David Tripp

#5. What's a political?"
"Like a spy, but on your own side," said Maladict

Terry Pratchett

#6. My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

John Dryden

#7. Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man.

Robin M. Bertram

#8. Be the one to stand out in the crowd.

Joel Osteen

#9. I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

Klaus Schulze

#10. In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.

Edmund Burke