Soft Quotes
1463 quotes by 1087 authors
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The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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What’s this here,†he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?†Oh, we have to have them,†said Newt, “We burn them.†Say…
— Terry Pratchett
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If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's…
— Natasha Trethewey
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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!…
— Kate Chopin
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Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman…
— Betty Smith
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have…
— Oscar Wilde
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Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within…
— Sherman Alexie
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When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices…
— Jack Kerouac
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...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and…
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
— Sarah Dessen
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To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have;…
— Susan Sontag
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Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile
— Anne Rice
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Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft"…
— Tom Peters
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The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one…
— Kenneth Grahame
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My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle! I mean, if…
— James Patterson
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