Gentle Quotes

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...she waited until she and my grandfather Anthel were just home from their honeymoon, and then sat him down and told him this: "Honey, I… — Haven Kimmel
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. — Vincent Van Gogh
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If… — Max Lucado
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is… — Unknown Author
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of… — Vladimir Nabokov
But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in… — George MacDonald
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just… — Yann Martel
A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and… — Libba Bray
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely… — Mao Zedong
Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are… — Sigmund Freud
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous… — Che Guevara
With each spring comes new life, energy and green growth. In summer comes the sun, warm, kind and enduring. Fall brings its canvas of color… — Jason F. Wright
In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel so bad about… — Annette Curtis Klause
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost… — Chris Abani
Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids… — Richard Brautigan
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if… — Henry David Thoreau
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen… — Charles Dickens
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a… — Elizabeth Strout
They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm… — Toni Morrison
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly. — William Blake

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