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Quotes About Gentle

When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.
~ Edwin Morgan
And now what will I do with all this time that forms my life with all these people who care nothing for me now, that you've left all these nights why, for whom and this morning for nothing returning my heart banging for whom why banging gravely, gravely, and now how to face up to that nothingness my life slipping o friends be gentle you know well we have nothing to do with it And now what will I do now that you . . .
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
When the bonds which knit society to God are relaxed, selfishness soon becomes furious, and forcibly seizes what it lusts after, regardless of others' rights. Sin saps the very foundations of social life, and makes men into tigers, more destructive to each other than wild beasts. All our grand modern schemes for the reformation of society will fail unless they begin with the reformation of the individual. To walk with God is the true way to make men gentle and pitying.
~ Alexander MacLaren
I've always preferred food be on the blander side.
~ Alexandra Paul
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.
~ Aristotle
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
~ Helen Rowland
I like my coffee light.
~ Elizabeth Banks
I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
~ Faith Hill
Elvis was really sweet and kind of bashful, but he didn't have a whole lot to say.
~ Rita Moreno
I'm pretty peaceful and calm and sweet.
~ Jeff Perry
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.
~ Tony Scott
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.
~ Tony Scott
Michael Emerson is just a prince. There's something about him. He's so sweet. I don't know how to describe it. There's something about him that's a bit royal.
~ Sarah Shahi
I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.
~ Janet Jackson
Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.
~ Ashley Wagner
I am sweet and diplomatic in real life.
~ Kriti Sanon
I think it's important to be subtle, sweet, and powerful.
~ Luke Rockhold
I'm calm some days, sweet some days.
~ Cris Cyborg
I think I'm a really sweet guy, kind of shy and nice and stuff.
~ Hunx
You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet.
~ Eliza Dushku
Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.
~ Alvin Ailey
Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.
~ Tucker Carlson
Their footsteps sound like the soft hush of rain over the stone floors.
~ Rene Denfeld
I'll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won't rain.
~ Richard Brautigan