Quotes About Gentle

fluffy oak trees.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

It seemed to me at that moment that the peril hanging over us, the horrors we had seen at Babi Yar and elsewhere, made it all the more vital that we love each other, never hurt each other, always be truthful and gentle with each other. Helena understood that also. I could see it in her eyes, sense it in her sighs, and small cries, and reluctance to let go of me.

I held it out and Caleb took it. This was the first book he had held in his hands. He made me smile, opening it upside down and back to front, but he touched the pages with the utmost care, as if gentling some fragile-boned wild thing. The godliest among us did not touch the Bible with such reverence as he showed to that small book.

His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man!

He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it.

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world.

The next thing she knew, he was shaking her gently by the shoulder. "Eve." "What!" Her eyes popped open. "I wasn't sleeping. I was thinking." "Yes, I could hear you thinking." "If that's some smart-ass way of saying I was snoring, bite me.

The sun's touch is kind.

Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John

Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. I have wanted to, but he holds back. I hope...I believe it is because he wishes to mate me properly first, in ceremony. Payne felt the awful weight of premonition. Beware, sister. You are a gentle soul. Layla got to her feet, her smile now saddened. Yes, I am. But I would rather my heart be broken than unopened and I know that one must ask if one is to receive.

Will you take me to the motherboard, he said, turning around to her. The and into your bed part he left off. What a gentleman. Of course.

I take a nap after supper and dream of the U.S. Navy, a ship anchored near a war scene, at an island, but everything is drowsy as two sailors go up the trail with fishing poles and a dog between them to go make love quietly in the hills: the captain and everybody know they're queer and rather than being infuriated however they're all drowsily enchanted by such gentle love... (p. 119)

Goodnight gentle readers, sleep; sweet music to your dreams.

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

My father, Bob, was a sweet, gentle man who was prone to frustration. I hardly knew him as a child, but that was typical of those days. He got up early, came home late and wanted to be left alone.

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

Never say war insane at the moment for you to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

Life should be touched, not strangled.

Zen questioning is a very gentle questioning. It is the kind of questioning that the Colorado River asks the Grand Canyon over centuries and centuries.