Gentle Quotes - Page 37

• Heavy blizzards start as a gentle and persistent snow.

  Mark Helprin

  Snow, Heavy, Blizzard

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You have the whole last century libraried and you can see exactly what we did. Now there's lots of artists and musicians moving there because they can't afford the rent in London and New York, and they're having children and making it a gentle place. It seems to be a place of hope now.

  Robert Montgomery

  New York, Children, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Almost all of "Julie" was shot on location in Carmel, which is a lovely resort town a little south of San Francisco. My co-star was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. An amiable man, very gentle, very much interested in the people around him; we had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy . . . We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, chatting by the hour.

  Doris Day

  Beautiful, Beach, Stars

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• There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs, but deep within, behind the scenes at a profounder level we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Song, Prayer, Thinking

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• Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Rust, Break, Instruments

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• In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Voice, People

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• As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

  Tom Felton

  Names, Dames, Nervous

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• Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, Lips

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• It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured.

  Frank Sinatra

  Men, Soul, High Standards

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• Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female.

  David Connolly

  Angel, Years, Next

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• We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Heart, Kind Deeds, Long

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.60

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• Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Kind, Severe

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• We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.

  Russell Baker

  Teacher, Art, Ambition

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• The closer you get to death, the more alive you feel. Dylan Thomas wrote, Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. My dad always taught me to live like that. Dad wrote a poem too. It goes, Dune buggies. Woohoo!

  Christopher Titus

  Good Night, Dad, Light

  "Titus / When I Say Jump". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Heart, Space

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• Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.

  Andrew Nikiforuk

  Jobs, School, Ideas

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• A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

  Laozi

  Wind, Tree, Cracks

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• Those that do teach young babes
  Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.

  William Shakespeare

  Education, Children, Mean

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 2, l. 111

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• Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.

  Duncan Sheik

  Kings, Kids, Lakes

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• How do these people have any credibility? How do they get away with this?  It's mind boggling that its gotten to a point where the EPA is dictating policy based on what is an obvious fraud, or if you want to be gentle about it, creates enough doubt to back off.

  Joe Bastardi

  People, Doubt, Mind

  "How Do The AGW People Get Away With This?". notrickszone.com. August 8, 2011.

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• My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Mother, Home, Play

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• A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Dog, Kids, Ease

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Loving Life, People, Treats

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• Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Writing, Creativity

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, Pride, Opposites

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