Whenever I’d overhear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of saying the word ‘unbearable’),… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over, and runs off laughing. No one should grow… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing… — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be… — Kavita Ramdas Copy Share Image
One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
No one has ever touched me like you do. You’re like a whisper. Gentle, soft. Soothing. In my world, the people only… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a… — Malvina Reynolds Copy Share Image
At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief?… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to… — John A. Keel Copy Share Image
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel… — Annette Curtis Klause Copy Share Image
Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor… — William Cavendish Copy Share Image
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I start off by cleansing with the Biore Baking Soda Acne Cleansing Foam. I've tried so many different acne products and what… — Madelaine Petsch Copy Share Image
I'm not the crazy chick that people think I am. I am truly a human being, I'm not just this suspicious character… — Keke Wyatt Copy Share Image
I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic.… — James Lind Copy Share Image
Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
He's waiting for yu, young queen.' Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?' The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
My comedy isn't clean; it's just friendly. So I get asked to do a lot of clean shows. It's like, 'Oh, I… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind... Only when I am totally immersed...… — Catherine Stock Copy Share Image