Touchy Quotes

• In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Mirth, Graves

  'The Spectator' no. 68, 18 May 1711.

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• Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cat, Ego, Sense Of Humor

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

  Jody Watley

  Beauty, People, Black

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• People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

  E. B. White

  Motivational, Silly, People

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.131, Cornell University Press

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• I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

  Horace

  Order, Poetry, Tribes

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• Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

  Ayn Rand

  Loneliness, Achievement, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.348, Penguin

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• I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

  Plutarch

  Men, People, Fickle

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1874). “Plutarch's Morals”

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• Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

  Mark Russell

  Running, Long, People

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• I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

  Joel Stein

  People, Niche

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Huffy, Negative

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• Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

  Eugenia Price

  Laughter, Proof, Healed

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• Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it!

  Woody Allen

  Country, Children, Half

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• That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Comfort, Way, Stranger

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• Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Real, Dysfunction

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Fall, Skulls

  Joseph Campbell (1983). “Historical atlas of world mythology”

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• My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Dad, Emotional, Thinking

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• I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ... all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Thinking, Smoking

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• Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity

  Amin Maalouf

  People, Lazy, Together

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• I like action more than anything touchy-feely.

  Jordana Brewster

  Action

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

  Kobe Bryant

  Badass, Years, Bravery

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Roots, Clothes

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• Whenever I hear an American say Aussies drive on the 'wrong side of the road,' I just lose it. You ever think about how those people grew up driving on the 'wrong side of the road,' watched a lot of people get hurt on the 'wrong side of the road,' die on the 'wrong side of the road,' while other people cheered from the 'right side of the road'? Australia has a thing called Highway Fights, so it's touchy.

  Russell Crowe

  Hurt, Fighting, Thinking

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• I'm an observer in life, not a participant. That's why I'm a documentarian who looks through a camera. I'm not a touchy-feely person; I'm not a seminar person.

  Joe Berlinger

  Cameras, Looks, Persons

  Source: povmagazine.com

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• Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If they do talk about it, it is often talked about negatively. Nowadays in light of the Black Lives Matter movement I think people should pay attention to these lives also. I think the Black community will really embrace the film [Moonlight]. It is about us. It is real.

  Andre Holland

  Real, Thinking, Light

  Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. November 4, 2016.

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• Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Impact, Essence

  "'Maybe Sincerity Is The New Punk': Chris Cornell On Embracing Space". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2015.

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