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
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
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
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
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
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
Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth,… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
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
As I wish for you dreams that will soothe your soul, dreams that will whisper of secrets untold. I wish for you… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
You are okay just the way you are... and so is everybody else. Sometimes we want the kind of acceptance that we… — Neale Donald Walsch 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
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
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
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
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
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what… — Homer Copy Share Image
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich,… — Matthew Woodring Stover 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
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
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
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
Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one… — Ben Mikaelsen Copy Share Image
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of… — A. P. Herbert 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