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Quotes About Soothe

Oh, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!
~ Sir Walter Scott
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The nurses gave us meds to alleviate our tingling skins. And more meds to soothe our burning brains.
~ Gillian Flynn
I wish to soothe him; yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live?
~ Mary Shelley
As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world
~ William Carlos Williams
We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
~ Etty Hillesum
O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken
~ Sir Walter Scott
To calm himself he mentally recited Wilfred J.Funk's 1932 list of "most beautiful words." It was his mantra on restless nights like these. Ten words that generally knocked him unconscious if he concentrated on them hard enough. Melody. Golden. Chimes. Luminous. Mist. Tranquil. Murmuring. Lullaby. Hush. Dawn...
~ Josh Lanyon
When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray What charm can soothe her melancholy What art can wash her guilt away?
~ Julia London
No matter what else we do with our lives, Maggie, music will soothe and calm us. Music will last, and outlast, and cast its spell and enter our souls and connect us across time and distance. We must believe this, both of us, all of us.
~ Frances Itani
Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
~ Bram Stoker
Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.
~ Sylvia Brownrigg
Soothed her with scopoline.
~ Talmage Powell
Group A defined the challenge of anxiety as finding ways to manage and soothe the anxiety, while Group B clearly defined the problem as changing the behaviors that led to anxiety.
~ Brene Brown
We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19). We find freedom as we are touched by that first love. For it is that love that will break us away from our alienation and separation. It is a love that can soothe our compulsions to hoard and pretend we can organize the future. It is a love that allows us to love others.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Sullivan distinguished between fear and anxiety. If a loud noise occurs, if hunger is unaddressed, if tensions of any sort increase, the baby becomes afraid. Fear actually operates as an integrating tendency; as it is expressed in crying and agitation, it draws the caregiver into an interaction that will soothe the baby and address the problem. Anxiety, in contrast, has no focus and does not arise from increasing tension in the baby herself. Anxiety is picked up from other people.
~ Stephen A. Mitchell
Love…love is understanding. Love is knowing that other person so well, you can anticipate them. Like if someone knows you're uncomfortable, and they loosen your boot strings. Or if he knows you're deeply worried about something, and does his best to remedy it and soothe your fears.
~ Kate Noble
Mixed drinks of all kinds should glide down the throat easily, and since most cocktails have a spirit base, the addition of ingredients containing less or no alcohol is needed to cut the strength of the drink and make it more palatable. In most cases, the base spirit, be it gin, vodka, whiskey, or any other relatively high-proof distillate, makes up over 50 percent of the cocktail, and its soul must be soothed if the bartender wants to achieve balance.
~ Gary Regan
Judd sighed. I don't know why people take criticism so seriously. One good creator is worth all the critics who ever lived. Criticism is necessary to literature, Hawke said, and felt a fierce disgust with himself. It was as though he were trying to soothe a homicidal lunatic. Judd said, Nonsense, criticism is a minor form of entertainment, a sort of piggy-back writing that rides on other men's work.
~ Herman Wouk
Relax - This won't hurt.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
~ William Congreve
I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.
~ A.B. Shepherd, The Beacon
Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe.
~ Piper Payne, White Lies