quotes about Gentle
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For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER
-- Adam Rex -
I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard,
-- Ann Coulter -
Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it
-- Buck Brannaman -
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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
-- Catherine the Great -
She's soft and she's gentle and sweet as can be, and if Sharmon needs squeezin', then leave it to me.
-- Charlie Walker -
I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.
-- Colin Firth -
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
-- Dylan ThomasSource : "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
-- Edmund Spenser -
I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
-- Felicity Kendal -
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For someone so violent, he has a gentle face, doesn't he?
-- Fuyumi Soryo -
He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.
-- Gabrielle Zevin -
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
-- George Herbert -
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Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.
-- George R. R. Martin -
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
-- Gilbert ParkerSource : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
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Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
-- Homer -
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Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
There are men too gentle to live among wolves.
-- James KavanaughSource : James Kavanaugh (1990). “Search: A Guide for Those Who Dare to Ask of Life Everything Good and Beautiful”, Steven J Nash Pub
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If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
I never coached Sachin Tendulkar, I gave him gentle advice when he asked for it.
-- John Wright -
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Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.
-- Josh Turner -
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
-- Julia Cameron -
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Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.
-- Kenneth Patchen -
I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.
-- Lee Pace -
Love has a hundred gentle ends.
-- Leonora SpeyerSource : Leonora Speyer (1926). “Fiddler's Farewell”
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It can happen like that. It can build slowly. It can come like a gentle rainfall, or it can slam into you like a tsunami. You are my tsunami, love.
-- Lora Leigh -
I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have
-- Louise Hay -
He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
-- Marlene Dietrich -
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
-- Max Ehrmann -
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Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.
-- May Sarton -
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
-- Mercedes McCambridgeSource : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
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He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.
-- Morgan LlywelynSource : Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “Lion of Ireland”, p.139, Macmillan
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I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me...
-- Natasha BedingfieldSource : Song: I Bruise Easily, Album: Unwritten, 2004
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The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]
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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
-- Peter UstinovSource : "Still More of Who Said That?". Book by Renie Gee, 1981.
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True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.
-- Ralph Cudworth -
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While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
-- Rasheed Ogunlaru -
Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
-- Ray Bradbury -
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.
-- Raymond Chandler -
Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.
-- Rita Hayworth -
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Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.
-- Samuel Rogers -
Gentle to others, to himself severe.
-- Samuel RogersSource : Samuel Rogers (1827). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.258
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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.
-- Sarah Josepha HaleSource : Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.26
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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
-- Shane Claiborne -
It takes strength to be gentle and kind.
-- Steven Morrissey -
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
-- Storm JamesonSource : Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.39, A&C Black
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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
-- T. S. Eliot -
Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell
-- Teresa MedeirosSource : Teresa Medeiros (2013). “A Whisper of Roses”, p.172, Amber House Books
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It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.
-- Theophile Gautier -
When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.
-- Vera Nazarian -
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
-- Will Durant -
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
-- William Wordsworth -
Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.
-- Willie Nelson -
Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
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John Carpenter was very gentle. He was very tender. He really liked talking to actors. He really wanted you to be comfortable. He waited until you were ready to do the scene, and he has a lot of confidence.
-- P. J. Soles -
Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!
-- Donald McCaigSource : Donald McCaig (2007). “Rhett Butler's People”, p.10, Macmillan
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Be Strong, Gentle and Beautiful, in Mind, Body and Spirit.
-- Keiko FukudaSource : "98-year-old woman reaches highest echelon of judo" by Robyn Norwood, www.espn.com. September 16, 2011.
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