Quotes About Gentle

Lift up your dark heart and sing a song about how time drifts past you like the gentlest, almost imperceptible breeze. — Jim Harrison, from "Cold Poem," Saving Daylight . (Copper Canyon Press 2006)

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

O Ramadan, be gentle, the tears of the believers pour forth, and their hearts are anxious from the pain of separation. And why shouldnt the tears flow from the believers upon the parting of Ramadan whilst he knows not whether he shall live to see its return!

You've got to acknowledge the issues in front of you, even if your partner is resolutley avoiding them. Be gentle but firm and make sure you're both in this together.

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.

Speak comfortable words.

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Never gave anybody any trouble. A bit of a loner, but always with a kind word for everyone.

You don't need to struggle, your baby is coming. Help him come to us, open your body and let him come into the world. You give birth, you don't force birth or besiege it. It's not a battle, it's an act of love. You give birth to your childd and you can do it gently.

In the first days of his time in office," I said, "doesn't he smile at and greet whomever he meets, and not only deny he's a tyrant but promise much in private and public, and grant freedom from debts and distribute land to the people and those around himself, and pretend to be gracious and gentle to all?

When two friends, like you and me, are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.

Your lightness," I said, hardly knowing what I was saying. "It's disarming.

A woman who would make his dreams hers and allow him to be part of hers. One who was kind and gentle. Loving and tender. Sensible.

I wish you and Dad had known him the way I did," she said wistfully. "He's such a contradiction. Rough and surly on the outside, but gentle and compassionate on the inside." "It sounds as though you're describing your father." She pondered her mother's words. "Nolan is a lot like Daddy. Principled and proud. Independent to a fault. I didn't realize that in the beginning, only later.

Anna, I hope I didn't wake

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

arisaid. A night breeze brushed a strand of hair across my face.

In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.

I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

It is difficult to imagine Fanny [Price] engaged with poultry, or supervising apple-picking... her role as [as a clergyman's wife] suggested by Jane Austen was to be a gently moralizing one. She would strengthen Edmund's moral purposes and supply the shrewd assessment of the people around him which he clearly lacked.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

He must have seen the question in her eyes. He must have read her confusion, for he smiled gently, folded her hand in his, and raised it to his lips. "I know what you're thinking," he said softly, looking at her from over the top of her knuckles, "but you see, Maeve—I am you Gallant Knight after all. I fulfill every blasted one of your criteria.