Gentle Quotes

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

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.

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good - in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn't make much money, but you had a lot of fun.