Soft Quotes
1463 quotes by 1087 authors
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
— Thomas Otway
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What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh.…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
— Samuel Johnson
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We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of…
— Bertrand Russell
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People who describe culture and values and how people behave - I've heard people refer to it as 'the soft stuff'-they often underestimate its importance.…
— Carly Fiorina
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Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that…
— Evelyn Waugh
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The girl who I will marry will have a heart so wise that in the hollow of her eyes my heart will want to tarry.…
— Jacques Brel
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This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.
— Francis Schaeffer
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The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,…
— Walter Scott
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What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of…
— Wilson Mizner
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All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead,…
— Ethel Lynn Beers
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I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by…
— Henri Desgrange
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On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark
— Big L
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To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient…
— Canvass White
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It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or…
— Agostino Scilla
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Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional…
— Gay Mitchell
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
— Bill Bowerman
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You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is…
— Dutch Schultz
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We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow…
— Chief Joseph
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