Quotes About Oversensitive

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Brion James

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

Minae Mizumura

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Joe Torre

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Evelyn Waugh

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Stephenie Meyer

#16. 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

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

William Maxwell

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

Henri Charriere

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Siri Hustvedt

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

Graham Allison

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

Michel Patini

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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

Max Lucado

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

Mardy Grothe

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

Cindy Gerard

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. She was all he could see.

Rainbow Rowell