Gentle Quotes - Page 38

• Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory; to master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Sports, Strong, Humble

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• My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Morning, Father, Gps

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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

  Mean, Stuff, Arms

  "What's So Funny? Humor Comes Under Harsh Glare of Political Correctness". Press-Telegram, October 23, 1993.

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• My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

  Paul Ryan

  Brother, Dad, Thinking

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  Wallace Shawn

  Hands, House, Awkward

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

  Michael Sheen

  Children, Parent, Stressed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

  Josh Turner

  Fans, Giants

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• I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

  Joss Whedon

  Men

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

  Henry Williamson

  Friends, Father, Flower

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• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Jesus, Modern, Invention

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2270, e-artnow

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• You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

  Tony Kushner

  Kindness, Heart, Thinking

  "Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika". Book by Tony Kushner, January 18, 2017.

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• If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Courage, Strong, People

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else.

  Daniel Handler

  Life, Beach, Ocean

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• The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Atheist, Opposites

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant Southern sun, Queen Susan, the Gentle; and to the clear Northern sky I give you King Peter, the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen. May your wisdom grace us 'til the stars rain down from the heavens.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Stars, Queens

  "Fictional character: Aslan". "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", 2005.

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• A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loss, Dying, Culture

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Thinking, Blood

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held secret ravines and merciless crevices. One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a lonely goatherd, but fifty tons of express-delivery snow.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lonely, Echoes, Ice

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.342, Random House

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• Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Passion, Games

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• If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

  Kathleen Norris

  Loss, Order, Grace

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• A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old before his time. One is mortal. They share no bond of blood or sympathy, but they are twins nonetheless. They each live without ever knowing that they are brothers. They each die fighting the blind god.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Mother, Brother, Fighting

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.1046, Del Rey

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• Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.

  Anne Lamott

  Love You, Men, Emotional

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.

  Georgette Heyer

  Love You, Hands, Clothes

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• The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vices, Ruins, Strange

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.58, Oxford University Press on Demand

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