Quotes About Affection Tenderness

#1. For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

Deepak Chopra

#2. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.

Mose Allison

#4. I'm worth more," she told him, wiping the back of her hand across her mouth. "Affection, respect, tenderness, I'm worth all of that, so don't you dare come near me again until you're ready to offer it.

Nalini Singh

#5. I believe that some of the magic in BDSM comes from this 'true meeting of spirit and body'.

Senta Holland

#6. There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

Washington Irving

#7. The way to my heart is through your heart.

Marty Rubin

#8. Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

Bob Brown

#9. Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim

Ilona Andrews

#10. In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.

Ian Frazier

#11. Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.

Leontyne Price

#12. I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

Layne Staley

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

Ethel Waters

#14. When I went into their family, it was the abode of happiness and contentment. The mistress of the house was a model of affection and tenderness. Her fervent piety and watchful uprightness made it impossible to see her without thinking and feeling - that woman is a Christian.

Frederick Douglass

#15. I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence ... And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.

Ursula Goodenough

#16. If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark

Haruki Murakami

#17. Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman

#18. Helpless as a burning city, / how can I ignore that the extremes / of pleasure are fire storms / that leave a vacuum into which / dangerous feelings (tenderness, / affection, l o v e) may rush / like gale force winds.

Marge Piercy

#19. If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

Marty Rubin

#20. Tears of tenderness and affection are no disparagement at all, even to great and wise men.

Matthew Henry

#21. I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only dearness and tenderness, to make me weep. I am moved now and sad and unhappy beyond cold unhappiness, beyond any inconvenience that will cause you by my affection.

Allen Ginsberg