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Quotes About Gentle

Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love. —Ephesians 4:2
~ Gary Chapman
A gentle, sincere touch has as much healing power as mighty spoken words. — Steven Thompson
~ Gary Chapman
gentle and innocent as wolves as tricky as a prince
~ Gary Snyder
The fresh complexion of former days was gone. A mortal pallor covered those features, which he had known so charming and so gentle, and sorrow had furrowed them into pitiless lines and traced dark and unspeakably sad shadows under her eyes.
~ Gaston Leroux
You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased. Soon
~ Gaston Leroux
If I have to go into that good night, I'm goin' gentle ; the hell with whoever said not to. That sucker's dead , man, so what did he know? Not even the courage of his convictions.
~ George Alec Effinger
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
~ George Herbert
The Dimasa people are one of the gentlest people I have come across. They are wonderful people.
~ Victor Banerjee
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
~ Iggy Pop
As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.
~ Tom Felton
I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.
~ Jeremy Bulloch
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
~ George Herbert
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of.
~ Gordon Taylor
I am yearning for love, yearning for a girl poor of heart who loves me, her hand is trembling on a blue treetop, in order to yearn for my love, always at a high place, is trembling with gentle feeling.
~ Sakutar? Hagiwara
held all his flickering presence, gentle as mist in my arms, hard as metal.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
they must be wooed with kindness, if their attention is ever to be won. And surely reason itself might teach us this lesson. Children are weak and tender creatures, and, as such, they need patient and considerate treatment. We must handle them delicately, like frail machines, lest by rough fingering we do more harm than good. They are like young plants, and need gentle watering, often, but little at a time.
~ Mark Hamby
Truth is not anchored to the ground by driven piles. It can float and take to the air; it is light and lovely and delicate. It is feminine as well as masculine. It is often gentle, and sometimes it can even make a fool of itself—but when it does it calls down God (who protects weak creatures), and suddenly its foolishness becomes a blazing, piercing light.
~ Mark Helprin
As the dark fumes floated above the houses, snow began to fall gently from a dull sky, each flake giving a small hiss as it reached the bucket. The
~ Anthony Powell
keep the baby's head higher than her butt, always support the head, and gentle patting or rubbing is
~ Armin A. Brott
a gentle tickling on Floyd's wrist announced an incoming call.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He has a gentle voice and a quiet manner, but behind his twinkling blue eyes there lurks a capacity for furious wrath and implacable resolution, the more dangerous because they are held in leash.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
In a period of international crisis, the doctor said gently, when you find, for instance, cultural patterns rapidly disintergrating... International crisis, Mrs. Arnold said. Patterns. She began to cry quietly. [...] Reality, she said, and went out.
~ Shirley Jackson