Soft Quotes
1463 quotes by 1087 authors
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If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
— Arturo Toscanini
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The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground,…
— Marcus Luttrell
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She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten…
— D. H. Lawrence
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We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.
— Joan Halifax
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Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings,…
— Stanley Crawford
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Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding
— George Karl
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The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out…
— Emil Kraepelin
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John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
— Murray Rothbard
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Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.
— Heinz von Foerster
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If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to…
— Pema Chodron
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with…
— Harper Lee
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I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a…
— Ansel Adams
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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
— Bill Hybels
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The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded
— Margaret Thatcher
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But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the…
— Dave Barry
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Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.
— Jeff Buckley
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Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open…
— Patrick Lencioni
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even…
— Susan Cain
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