This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
His hands as he worked were deft and sure, but so gentle -- he was being careful not to hurt me any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
He slouched back in his seat, looking tired, and leaned his face on his shoulder to look at me while he played… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Don't make fun of her," the Duke said. "She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good… — John Green Copy Share Image
Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere… — Bob Benson Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner but I am never lost: there are the snowflakes frozen to the… — Nancy Eimers Copy Share Image
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau 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
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“This year, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto Copy Share Image
Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has… — Tsutomu Ohshima Copy Share Image
Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle… — Moby Copy Share Image
High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Aomori Water is a sound collage piece made in 1998, in Aomori Japan. I was in a residency with other artists. A… — Phill Niblock Copy Share Image
Nightfall. “What a strange word. ‘Night’ I get. But ‘fall’ is a gentle word. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
