Top Tender Quotes
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Voltaire
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
Mary MacLane
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Paula Cole
Henri Nouwen 
Marcel Proust 
Henry Ward Beecher 
Josh Billings 
Ida Lupino 
George Washington Carver 
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It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.
George Wald 
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When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.
Joseph Mitchell
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For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
Anne Hutchinson
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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
William James
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.
Bruce Beresford
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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
Mary Richards
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We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
Brit Hume
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Popular Tender Authors
Francois de La Rochefoucauld VoltaireGeorge SantayanaHenry Ward Beecher HoraceDavid Herbert LawrenceWilliam JamesHonore De BalzacRobert FrostJosh BillingsWalt WhitmanEleanor RooseveltMarcel ProustAudre LordeChristian Nestell Bovee
Peter UstinovGeorge WaldTony CurtisAaron EckhartBrit HumeRalph FiennesDavid AttenboroughAgatha ChristiePaul HarrisAlan RickmanLisa Marie PresleyIsabelle AdjaniMary MacLaneKim NovakBruce Beresford
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