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Quotes About Gentle

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
~ Thomas de Quincey
I am a nice guy.
~ Fernandinho
I'm not mean. I'm a nice guy.
~ Jake McLaughlin
I'm a nice guy, I really am.
~ Divine
I'm basically a nice guy.
~ Billy Squier
I'm actually a very nice guy.
~ Dereck Chisora
My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.
~ Angelina Jolie
Congratulations? Martin's expression was like boiling milk. Congratulations? I will not permit my sister to marry such a rogue. Martin, darling. Juliana said, putting a gentle hand on her husband's arm, I completely understand your misgivings but I do think we should consider the matter calmly. Calmly! Martin spun around. I am not calm! I think we all realize that, dearest, Juliana said.
~ Nicola Cornick
poetry is motion graceful as a fawn gentle as a teardrop strong like the eye finding peace in a crowded room
~ Nikki Giovanni
Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished.
~ Nikola Tesla
A soft light's got its own appeal.
~ Nora Roberts
the evening was beautifully balmy. "I
~ Nora Roberts
Sweets to the sweet, he murmured
~ Clive Barker
She had never seen him rush or hurry. The man moved with exquisite calm, like a leaf drifting on the surface of a pond, making its own way on gentle currents.
~ Colson Whitehead
The doors go shutting far in the distance, gently knocking like the pulse of a heart.
~ Virginia Woolf
At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Paul: "If any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, uncontentious, free from the love of money" (1 Timothy 3:1–3).
~ Larry Burkett
You have to be gentle with the young, W. says. They're a gentle generation, like fauns, he says, and require a special tenderness. Their lives are going to be bad--very bad--and, at the very least, we should be tender with them, and not remind them of what is to come.
~ Lars Iyer
There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.
~ Laura Kinsale
THE SUN TOUCHED HER FACE LIKE THE SOFTEST CARESS.
~ Laura Ruby
face. She gently
~ Laurel O'Donnell
It's definitely broken," my mom says [...] "Maybe it's unplugged or something," [...] "Honey, it's broken," my mom says. She sounds like she's trying to break it to me gently. I can't really blame her. The other day she told me there was no more vanilla ice cream, and I burst into tears right in the middle of the kitchen. She obviously knows I'm fragile.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
Once the stage of psychological disintegration is reached, death is often not far away," John Leach writes in Survival Psychology. "[T]he ability people possess to die gently, and often suddenly, through no organic cause, is a very real one.
~ Laurence Gonzales
Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!
~ Charles Dickens