Softly Quotes

506 quotes by 334 authors

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those… — John Muir
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! — Emily Dickinson
It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but… — Vera Nazarian
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a… — D. H. Lawrence
Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter. — Gerald R. Ford
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. — Pope John XXIII
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep… — Roy Orbison
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. — Theodore Roosevelt
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. — Theodore Roosevelt
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. — William Butler Yeats
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of… — Cormac McCarthy
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light… — William Butler Yeats
You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give… — Gregory Maguire
In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in… — Anne Rice
I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have. — Diana Gabaldon
D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do… — Diana Gabaldon
When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I… — Diana Gabaldon
Fangâ€™s hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair… — James Patterson
One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it… — Norman Maclean
AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,… — James Russell Lowell

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