The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
There are always safe spaces. You can be a beacon for other people who are struggling. It's hard to put your heart out there and put it in other peoples' hands. But the receiving end is gentle.
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.
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.
Culture makes all men gentle.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
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.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day.
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.
We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these motorways permanently lit? Is it really needed? Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness? Can we be more gentle with light?
It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
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.
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.
I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile. I'm really a very gentle person.
