Gently Quotes
522 Gently quotes by 400 unique authors
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All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each…
— Hermann Hesse
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The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your…
— Keith Miller
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Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.
— Albert Camus
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Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled; the…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,…
— Mark Twain
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Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I…
— Hanna Reitsch
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Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.
— Miljenko Jergovic
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In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
— Alice B. Toklas
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Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently…
— Roma Downey
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Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on at 6am and…
— Natalie Dormer
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying…
— William Hurt
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We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow…
— William Kent Krueger
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Watch carefully the children around you. In precious moments you will catch a glimpse of your Savior’s face. Listen intently and you will hear his…
— Wess Stafford
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Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied…
— George Eliot
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Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.
— Robert Burns
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Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move....
— Satchel Paige
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Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed…
— Frances E. Willard
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I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the…
— Tony Blair
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...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a…
— Deepak Chopra
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I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . .…
— Keith Floyd
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In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant…
— Gautama Buddha
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is…
— Adyashanti
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And here is one choice that our Father wants us to understand as Christians – and I believe this is the choice of our age:…
— Gary Haugen
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Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands…
— Beryl Markham
Who Wrote These Gently Quotes
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