Quotes About Gentle

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often

Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.

I have to admit, it's not a bad feeling, having a boy sweep you along, usher you through crowds. It's the feeling of being cared for. It's kind of like walking in a dream.

Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome.

She had a gently modelled face and her eyes and her smile lighted up at decisions as though they were rich presents.

Her eyes . . . What's the colour of her eyes . . . ? JEAN : Misty eyes . . . no, black . . . no, very bright . . . and penetrating . . . no, elusive . . . with a present, no, absent look, the colour of certain dreams, as gentle as the touch of a warm river in summer. You see? She's easy to recognize!

Good and upstanding people must be persuaded by gentle means,' Napoleon would later write. 'The rabble must be moved by terror.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Whenever you go to Kashmir, you find people who are very gentle and soft-spoken.

Wherever you interact with people, you have the opportunity to influence people. This isn't something you necessarily jam down somebody's throat, but it is something you can - gently and over time - begin to cultivate wherever you are.

I never want to be the one causing a ruckus. I never want to be problematic in any kind of way.

Well, my skin is very sensitive, so I don't experiment much with it and prefer to keep it natural.

I always thought I was a fairly meek individual.

But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.

Behind closed doors, Rob is a real teddy bear, a big softie.

Whenever I'm teaching teenagers, I always try to treat them, like, a little bit more gently but the same that I treat adults.

One time I had to file the teeth of a carthorse. They're such gentle creatures.

American Pharoah loved human contact. He was a very sweet horse and is still very sweet. He loves people, will put his head in your lap. I'm probably closer to that horse because of his temperament.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

It already smells good," he said, pointing toward the stove. "It smells... quiet." He looked at her. "Quiet? Could something smell quiet" She was thinking about the phrase, asking herself. He was right. After the pork chops and steaks and roasts she cooked for the family, this was quiet cooking. No violence involved anywhere down the food chain, except maybe for pulling up the vegetables. The stew cooked quietly and smelled quiet.

She loved all the creatures of the farm. Each one, even a hen, was like a person to her, even more real than many of the real people she knew. Some were playful or bold, and some were shy. Some were gentle, and some were wicked. Some were smart, like Fido, and some were foolish, like the hens.

When the chips are down, Orwell argued, our workers do not defend their class but their country, and they associate their country with a gentle way of life in which unusual and eccentric habits – such as not killing one another – are accepted as the way things are. In these respects, Orwell also thought, the leftist intellectuals will always misunderstand the workers, who want nothing to do with a self-vaunting disloyalty that only intellectuals can afford.