Gently Quotes

522 Gently quotes by 400 unique authors

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently. — Anatole France
But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how… — Jamie Ford
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be… — Norton Juster
My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like… — Patrick Rothfuss
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve.… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell
Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently. — Ray Bradbury
In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake… — Ray Bradbury
Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth.… — Patrick Ness
Home, Ms. Lane?” His deep voice was gently amused. “I have to call it something,” I said morosely. “They say home is where the heart… — Karen Marie Moning
Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed… — Jim Butcher
I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and… — Diana Gabaldon
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the… — Albert Camus
No," Dimitri interrupted gently. He moved his face toward mine, our foreheads nearly touching. "It won't happen to you. You're too strong. You'll fight it,… — Richelle Mead
It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and… — Pema Chodron
The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!" Esperanza… — Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech.… — Diana Gabaldon
I've always started every day by going to the window for a glimpse of the sky. But now I won't have to." "Why not?" She… — Lisa Kleypas
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all… — Samuel Beckett
And then they kiss. Slowly, gently. Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing. — Lisa McMann
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not… — William Ellery Channing
This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And… — Terry Pratchett
He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway — Alice Sebold
What did Romeo and Juliet do?” They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison- — Gordon Korman

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