Gentle Quotes

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin

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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.

Ottessa Moshfegh

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Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.

K. A. Applegate

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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C. S. Lewis

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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Robert Kennedy

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Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.

Tony Scott

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Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Loretta Lynn

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The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.

Conrad Black

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Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.

Nikki Blonsky

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As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.

James Purefoy

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

Charles Lamb

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After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.

Paul Horn

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

George Herbert

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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Oliver Herford

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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Ingrid Newkirk

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People love gentle larceny.

Dan Aykroyd

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Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

Matthew Green

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Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle.

Mary H.K. Choi

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Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

Judy Parfitt

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We are all neighbors. Be kind. Be gentle.

Clemantine Wamariya

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Rene Char

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Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

James Lind

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