Gentle Quotes

1044 quotes by 754 authors

Who is he when he isn't Dauntless, isn't an instructor, isn't Four, isn't anything in particular? Whoever he is, I like him. It's easier to… — Veronica Roth
But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was… — Elizabeth Gaskell
It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. — Richard Bach
Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texasâ€” he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to… — Nalini Singh
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.â€” Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts! — William Shakespeare
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, or they think… — Nicholas Sparks
When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you… — Wendell Berry
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a… — Virginia Woolf
Youâ€Ÿre my mate. Think you can handle that?â€ It was hard to speak with her heart bursting open. â€œThink you can handle me?â€ â€œSo long… — Nalini Singh
When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without… — Henri Nouwen
Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked… — Rachel Caine
Nightfall. â€œWhat a strange word. â€˜Nightâ€™ I get. But â€˜fallâ€™ is a gentle word. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To carpet the earth… — Karen Marie Moning
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive. — Raymond Chandler
His hands as he worked were deft and sure, but so gentle -- he was being careful not to hurt me any more than he… — L.A. Weatherly
Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender,… — Ivan Turgenev
Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from… — William Shakespeare
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness;… — Mark Twain
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on… — Oscar Wilde
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten… — Richard Dawkins
Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you… — Edwidge Danticat

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