It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass
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My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.
Charles Farrar Browne
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L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.
Lee Child
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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Frank Muir
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Walter Bagehot
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
Naomi Wolf
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
D. H. Lawrence
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I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.
Robert Orben
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I sometimes wash my face at night with Cetaphil, which I like because it's a really gentle face wash.
Mary Helen Bowers
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Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.
Josh Turner
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My advice is don't scrub your makeup off your eyes; be gentle.
Colbie Caillat
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When we describe human relations, we usually make them better than they are: gentle, peaceful, and so forth, whereas in reality, they are often competitive.
Rene Girard
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
James Dean
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
Emma Donoghue
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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Catherine the Great
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A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
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Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
Helen Rowland
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor Hugo
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.
Ian Brown
MusicI AmThinkCareGentleHard
I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
Ed Greenwood
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I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
Anjelica Huston
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Michel de Montaigne
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