Gentle Quotes - page 15

Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Well-content, Thou knowest of no strange continent; Thou hast not felt thy bosom keep A gentle motion with the deep; Thou hast not sailed in Indian seas, Where scent comes forth in every breeze. (William Henry Davies)
I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play. View quote
Anna Sewell
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . . View quote
Mary E. Pearson
Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas- he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him. View quote
Nalini Singh
The tiniest gesture -- a smile, a gentle look, a simple pat on the arm, a soft word -- can change a person's life. Before this very day is out, you are going to have a chance to live in that possibility. Look. Watch. See what this day brings you. And be ready. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss. View quote
Sy Montgomery
Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day. View quote
Stuart Wilde
A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit! View quote
Taraji P. Henson
As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say. View quote
Tom Felton
The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done? View quote
Tosca Lee
As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart. (Francine Rivers)
Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on. View quote
Sean Covey
The world sure isn't kind to the man who tries to be gentle and thoughtful. View quote
Glen Cook
Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John. View quote
J.R. Ward
We all have kindly impulses, fostered by two thousand years of Christian teaching, gentle Jesus, and love thy neighbour, but we have the killer instinct, too, the murderous impulse of the hunter... View quote
George MacDonald Fraser
I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not. View quote
Julie Garwood
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga. View quote
Emma Donoghue
For any child, boy or girl, a father is both Jedi and Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi - gentle and calming and good - and Vader, fierce and terrifying. View quote
Cass Sunstein
Keller couldn't form any words for a moment. Then she said, "Galen? When you choose a form, choose something gentle." I thought you thought everybody had to be a fighter." He said. Some people shouldnt have to be. View quote
L.J. Smith
The bargain...” she mumbled. "You said I could kiss you,” came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. "But, my love...you didn't specify where. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
Negroes Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day They change their minds! Wind In the cotton fields, Gentle breeze: Beware the hour It uproots trees! (Langston Hughes)
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. View quote
Lora Leigh
I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way. View quote
Nikki Reed
Night threw her shadow on the world. Sailors out at sea looked up at the circling Bear and the stars of Orion. Travellers and watchmen longed for sleep, and oblivion came at last to mothers mourning for their children's death. In the town, dogs ceased to bark and men to call to one another; silence reigned over the deepening dark. But gentle sleep did not visit Medea. In her yearning for Jason, fretful cares kept her awake. She feared the great strength of the bulls; she saw him face them in the field of Ares; she saw him meet an ignominious end. Her heart fluttered within her, restless... View quote
Apollonius of Rhodes
One [nymph], the naiad of the spring, was just emerging from the limpid water as Hylas drew near. And there, with the full moon shining on him from a clear sky, she saw him in all his radiant beauty and alluring grace. Her heart was flooded by desire; she had a struggle to regain her scattered wits. But Hylas now leant over to one side to dip his ewer in; and as soon as the water was gurgling loudly round the ringing bronze she threw her left arm round his neck in her eagerness to kiss his gentle lips. Then with her right hand she drew his elbow down and plunged him in midstream. View quote
Apollonius of Rhodes