Quotes About Gentle

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

I want people to know you can live a life that is less aggressive and still have success.

Canada, he told me one day through squinted eyes and smoke rings, is full of violent cowards. People believe they are gentile, but they attack in quiet ways. They use their intellect, their knowledge, always trying to prove they are smarter, more important. The man with no ego is the gentle man, Canada is a land of civilized barbarians.

Er war stets so ruhig und gelassen wie frisch gefallener Schnee

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

One evening I sat in on the congregation's annual meeting with its district superintendent, Alexander B. Joyner. It opened with testimony from Hoot Pruitt. "We're blessed to have our pastor, because he knows how to get people in line—not in a rough way, but in a gentle spirit," he said.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

The meek shall inherit the earth.

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.

Os barcos ancorados remexiam com moleza as ancas.

i'm afraid he looks rather startling" Mr Carter said, as though apologising for the spider's appearance, "but he's quite gentle really. He wouldn't hurt a fly. Or rather he would hurt a fly but he wouldn't hurt anything else," he amended.

He made such a faint presence. It was like being in the room with a feather.

Where did the boy fit? He made such a faint presence. It was like being in the room with a feather.

Brutus was high-minded, an intellectual who took ideas seriously. He saw the assassination of Caesar as a sacrifice rather than a political act. He was a man with "a singularly gentle nature," who feared civil war almost (although not quite) as much as tyranny.

sometimes when ambitions burn out they do so gently.

My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.

She had suddenly a clear view of him as a man extraordinarily clear-sighted in the affairs of others, in great affairs, but in his own so simple as to be almost a baby. And gentle! And extraordinarily unselfish. He didn't betray one thought of self-interest… not one.

A body 'as to move gentle an' speak low when wild things is about.

And the sun fell warm upon his face like a hand with a lovely touch.