THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long… — Jonathan Franzen 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
What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest.… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else fall pursues both of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse. — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . . — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
After I'd met her, a mutual friend prompted me to ask her out for dinner, but she said she had a night… — Robert Wolders Copy Share Image
Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
“Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Certainly, if more people were smoking instead of drinking, people don’t get mean on weed, don’t beat up their wives on weed,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image