Soft Quotes

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.

I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can't move well and I like to move. When I'm not training, I get really round and soft.

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

It's always when you think that you've lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable 'When are you due?'

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.