Gently Quotes

522 quotes by 400 authors

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently. — Robert Breault
This sound meditation is gentle and subtle, but its benefits are extensive, in that it allows you to gently release tension that arises from your… — Tom Kenyon
There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small,… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders. — Jim Woodring
Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all… — Lewis Carroll
My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would… — Lincoln Steffens
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently. — Seneca the Younger
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently… — Martin Amis
Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be… — Oscar Niemeyer
By choosing better feeling thoughts and by speaking more of what you do want and less of what you don't want, you will gently tune… — Esther Hicks
Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man,… — Gautama Buddha
My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their… — Clive James
It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is… — William Morris Hunt
If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on… — Charles Dudley Warner
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of… — Elizabeth I
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. — Alice James
The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting-there is… — Thomas S. Monson
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my… — Peter Greenaway
Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how… — Edward Frenkel

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