Gentle Quotes - page 20

Don't you know there is no one in the streets and no one in the houses?There are only eyes in the windows. If you don't have a place to sleep, knock on a door and it will open, open up to a certain point and you will see that it is cold inside, and that that house is empty and wants nothing to do with you, your stories mean nothing, and if you insist on being gentle, the dog and the cat will bite you. (Pablo Neruda)
The world is never again as it was before anyone you love has ever died; never so innocent, never so fixed, never so gentle, never so pliant to your will. But these are afterthoughts. Generations vie and the young recover swiftly, or believe they do. View quote
Roger Kahn
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. View quote
Albert Camus
As if the blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. View quote
Albert Camus
O Night! most beautiful and rare! Thou givest the heavens their holiest hue, And through the azure fields of air Bring'st down the gentle dew. View quote
Thomas Buchanan Read
Catherine announced that he died of hemorrhoidal colic, and people who went to the funeral wondered why, in that case, the large bandage was tied around his neck. And that, gentle reader, is what comes from playing with dolls at the wrong time. View quote
Will Cuppy
Woe to him who in passing should hurl an insult at this gentle and pensive head. He would be punished, as all vulgar souls are punished, by his very vulgarity, and by his incapacity to conceive what is divine. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Duluth! The word fell upon my ear with a peculiar and indescribable charm, like the gentle murmur of a low fountain stealing forth in the midst of roses, or the soft sweet accent of an angel's whisper in the bright, joyous dream of sleeping innocence. 'T was the name for which my soul had panted for years, as the hart panteth for the water-brooks. View quote
J. Proctor Knott
Pandit Ami Chandra was Fiji's most distinguished Indian trade unionist, possessing high intelligence and a quiet but convincing personality. He strongly opposed any participation of the trade unions in politics; and he also used his powers of gentle persuation to bring about multi-racial trade unionism. View quote
Ami Chandra
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. View quote
Catherine II of Russia
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write. (Alexander McCall Smith)
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. View quote
Solomon
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. View quote
Charles Lamb
I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing. Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh; The worlds revolve like ancient women Gathering fuel in vacant lots. View quote
T. S. Eliot
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play- A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair. View quote
Edmund Spenser
It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people. View quote
Bob Keeshan
The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers. View quote
Muhammad Yunus
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Whoa there, lad! Whoa! Gentle now! Die well, die well. (Bernard Cornwell)
All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place. View quote
Mitt Romney
A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks. View quote
Libba Bray
Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? View quote
William Cullen Bryant
The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle. View quote
Brandon Sanderson