Gentle Quotes · Page 33

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires…

— Mark Twain

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at…

— Roselee Goldberg

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of…

— Clint Eastwood

There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about…

— Shaqiq al-Balkhi

With enough of us connecting heart with heart, center with center, innovation with innovation, prayer with prayer, through the internet and the…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the…

— Jean Rhys

Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is…

— Marianne Williamson

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their…

— Carl Honore

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish;…

— George Eliot

If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would…

— Maya Angelou

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful,…

— Richard Bach

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would…

— Stephen Fry

But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen…

— Henri Nouwen

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin…

— Leo Strauss

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now…

— Georges Duhamel

Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed…

— Dave Barry

“Cows are exceptionally gentle, loving beings who form strong bonds with their family and friends. Separating any mother from her child, as…

— Mango Wodzak

Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and…

— Fredrika Bremer

I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature…

— William Wordsworth

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in…

— Taraji P. Henson

Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

DON'T wear loud clanging bangles at work, it's disruptive and noisy and your coworkers won't appreciate it! Bangles should have a gentle…

— Padma Lakshmi

Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“You're elegance in a misunderstood form. Crystal quartz in a world of platinum. Oh, my dizzy boy, there's a fire in you…

— Taylor Rhodes

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…

— Henri Nouwen

You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you,…

— Nicholas Sparks

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell…

— Anonymous

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe,…

— John Milton

Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter,…

— Martin Luther

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and…

— Sven Nykvist

The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally -…

— Dave Smalley

Tis the gift to be gentle, ’tis the gift to be fair, ’Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air,…

— Patricia Briggs

There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus,…

— Christopher Hitchens

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,…

— Fanny Kemble

Kindness is a gentle invitation to soften our hearts, to connect deeper and clearer with all of life, and abide in the…

— Senoraroy

Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to…

— Nikki Blonsky

“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious…

— Richard Yates