Quotes About Oversensitive

#1. I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.

Stieg Larsson

#2. She was all he could see.

Rainbow Rowell

#3. Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy.

Timothy Brook

#4. I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things.

Robin Sharma

#5. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

Nelson Mandela

#6. When you're suffering, you're oversensitive to everything.

Henri Charriere

#7. Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.

William Maxwell

#8. Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else.

Marlen Haushofer

#9. Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#10. Of course I do, you silly, beautiful, oversensitive girl. He

Stephenie Meyer

#11. A box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.

E. Lockhart

#12. It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

Nelson Mandela

#13. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Margot Asquith

#14. Men. < ... > They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

Cindy Gerard

#15. People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.

Mandy Patinkin

#16. You really need to learn to take a compliment....And it wasn't just men who took this view; is was women, too--telling me I was getting worked up about nothing, or being oversensitive...

Laura Bates

#17. I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Evelyn Waugh

#18. Hating hurts the hater the most. Hating is not a salve for the wounded soul, it is an abrasive that keeps the soul wounded and raw and oversensitive.

Jack R. Rose

#19. When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Mardy Grothe

#20. Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.

James Patterson

#21. Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.

Max Lucado

#22. My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

Joe Torre

#23. It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#24. With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#25. I'm one of those girls that cries at the drop of a hat. I'm oversensitive, if anything. I'm a mom. I'm very earthy, crunchy granola. I compost.

Alysia Reiner

#26. What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.

Michel Patini

#27. The corporation that shrinks from the light would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

Theodore Roosevelt

#28. clean, efficient, rational, and predictable government is a competitive advantage.26

Graham Allison

#29. Privately, I felt that living in that privileged environment, where her emotions ran unchecked, had made her oversensitive and unstable.

Minae Mizumura

#30. I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.

Brion James

#31. Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

Siri Hustvedt