Gentle Quotes

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Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some… — Annie Proulx
You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do… — Margaret Mitchell
After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing. — Erin Hunter
You're so kind, Kazuhiko. That's what I like about you." I like you, too. I love you so much." If he weren't so inarticulate, Kazuhiko… — Koushun Takami
I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to… — Walter Dean Myers
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken… — Brennan Manning
For someone so violent, he has a gentle face, doesn't he? — Fuyumi Soryo
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up… — Kristin Cashore
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! — William Shakespeare
He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light… — Francoise Sagan
For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle. — Will Durant
The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my… — Muhammad Yunus
The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed… — Kim Harrison
Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest… — Herman Melville
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds… — J R Ward
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something… — Patrick Rothfuss
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 be unable to… — Maya Angelou

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