Gentle Quotes

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...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl."… — Laini Taylor
Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out,… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
Graham runs a hand through his hair and takes a deep breath. Finally, with a determined scowl, he crosses the room. His hands grip my… — Tammara Webber
Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
At first I wasnâ€™t all that tempted by him, but then he killed the spider. Which was a huge point in his favor.â€ â€œAbsolutely. I… — Lisa Kleypas
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are. — Robert A. Heinlein
It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my… — Elisabeth Elliot
Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It wakes old grievances… — Frances Hardinge
Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a… — Catherynne M. Valente
He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like… — Veronica Roth
It can happen like that. It can build slowly. It can come like a gentle rainfall, or it can slam into you like a tsunami.… — Lora Leigh
Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain… — Natsuki Takaya
Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the… — Jean Rhys
She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that… — Christine Feehan
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling… — Terry Tempest Williams
Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire. — Alice Munro
These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to… — Mother Teresa
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do:… — Ray Bradbury
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending. — Abraham Lincoln
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar… — Elizabeth Gaskell

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