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Quotes About Gentle

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.
~ Judy Parfitt
He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.
~ Dan Fogelberg
Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
~ Edmund Spenser
A person who is innocent is extremely humble.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.
~ Lou Rawls
The bargain…" she mumbled. "You said I could kiss you," came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. "But, my love…you didn't specify where.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It's sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it's actually very rough when you experience it.*
~ William Shakespeare
Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life.
~ Gary Zukav
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
~ George Herbert
Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.
~ Joseph Butler
Love has a hundred gentle ends.
~ Leonora Speyer
Miss Timms must have been out of her mind," he observed bitterly. "She said that you were utterly trustworthy and sensible." "Well, I hope I am when it comes to being a nurse. But today I'm just me, doing what I want to do." She took his hand gently from her arm. "Goodbye, Mr Werdmer ter Sane.
~ Betty Neels
A well-informed mind, nice manners and a gentle nature - all of these are much more likely to contribute to a husband's happiness than mere transient beauty.
~ Susanna Clarke
The Buddha's criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.
~ Sylvia Boorstein
Sighing, he scooped me up like a bride and carried me over to the sofa.
~ Sylvia Day
How I would like to believe in tenderness The face of the effigy, gentled by candles, Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes.
~ Sylvia Plath
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
~ T.S. Eliot
I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing. Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh; The worlds revolve like ancient women Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
~ T.S. Eliot
The conscience of a blackened street Impatient to assume the world. I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing.
~ T.S. Eliot
I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing. — T.S. Eliot, from "Preludes," Prufrock and Other Observations . (Forgotten Books September 27, 2015) Originally published 1917.
~ T.S. Eliot
And as he rested there in silence and she with gentle fingers smoothed his forehead, the strange flat earth went on about its business through the night.
~ Tanith Lee
His entire body waited on the brink of its own self-knowledge, fiercely and without reticence. As her trust had made him gentle with her, her worship had made him strong.
~ Tanith Lee
Hawkins's plan to be more careful was starting to include things like carefully brushing her off, and carefully take her home, where he could carefully kiss her mouth and carefully take her clothes off.
~ Tara Janzen
His face softened and he spoke in the gentle voice she'd grown so accustomed to. "I'm sorry I had to do that to you. But fear has its reward.
~ Ted Dekker