A Quote by William Maxwell

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

William Maxwell

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William Maxwell
American - Novelist
August 16, 1908 - July 31, 2000

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

Evelyn Waugh

...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

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.

Criss Jami

Men are four; He who knows and knows not that he knows. He is asleep; wake him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not. He is a fool; shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not. He is a child; teach him. He who knows and knows that he knows. He is a king; follow him. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional.

Mary Lambert

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

Herbert Read

There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

Brion James

A woman is very sensitive and knows exactly when she is loved or not. Mere words don't work.

Govinda

God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.

Billy Graham

A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

Marlon Brando

Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.

Tamar Braxton

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Joe Torre

I think, a lot of times, the mistake in music - even rappers that are trying to be big time - if you're broke, rap about being broke. If you're sensitive, rap about being sensitive, 'cause there are other sensitive people. If you're sensitive, but you talk about being a tough person that doesn't care about anything, people will call your bluff.