Soft Quotes
1463 quotes by 1087 authors
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long…
— D. H. Lawrence
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A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.
— John Lennon
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Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone…
— Jack Kerouac
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Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.
— William Shakespeare
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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you…
— Honore de Balzac
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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
— William Shakespeare
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There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale.…
— Neil Gaiman
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Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box…
— John Steinbeck
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Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
— William Blake
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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm,…
— Pythagoras
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There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks…
— George Eliot
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at…
— Sara Teasdale
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It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.
— Susanna Kaysen
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People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they…
— Pema Chodron
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He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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