Gentle Quotes

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.

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

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

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

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

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.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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

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.

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.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

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.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?

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

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

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

Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.