Smoothing Quotes

25 quotes by 25 authors

How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it… — John Milton
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out… — Indira Gandhi
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of… — Colley Cibber
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.... — Plato
My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative… — Sylvia Plath
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it. — Samuel Johnson
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God… — C.S. Lewis
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning… — Flannery O'Connor
Sleep, my love," He whispered, smoothing her long hair, lifting the damp locks away from the back of her neck. "I'll be here to watch… — Lisa Kleypas
As I was smoothing on the last handful across the top of my thigh, I noticed I had company. Lewus was standing there watching me,… — Rachel Caine
I notice her blouse has pulled out of her skirt in the back again and force myself to stay calm. "Tuck your tail in, little… — Suzanne Collins
I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful. — Simone Elkeles
Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. ÊºI need a coffee shop or something.Êº ÊºI think I saw one in a… — Richelle Mead
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling… — Louisa May Alcott
When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer,… — Sarah Dessen
Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts… — Suzanne Brockmann
It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another.… — Kristin Cashore
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing. — Emily Oster

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