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And a gentle tongue breaks a bone. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

It was a silence so deep, so still, that a man could finally hear the beating of his own heart, the gentle whispers of the soul. — Kamran Pasha

When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you. — Max Lucado

For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER — Adam Rex

I'm a pretty gentle person so I don't really have much of a thing of being a badass. — Lee Pace

gentle curves that had not been — Barbara Delinsky

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. — Frank Muir

She will change the world someday, her cure of love in a world gone mad; is the gentle kind of touch that will teach women to grow and men to rise. — Nikki Rowe

She was right off that scale, stranger; hurricane force nine was a gentle breeze where she came from. — Julian Barnes

It takes strength to be gentle and kind. — Steven Morrissey

She's like his spirit animal, a gentle, odd, spritely being who I'm pretty sure has a storage space full of fairy dust. — Jandy Nelson

The human heart is exquisitely fragile. Our judgments need to be gentle, our understanding deep, and our forgiveness wide. — Ron Rolheiser

It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts. — Francis De Sales

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it. — John Ruskin

I lean up to kiss Turner's moist lips, but he pulls back and smirks down at me, touching the bare skin on my hip with gentle fingers. — C.M. Stunich

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality. — Lisa Loomer

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat. — Vernor Vinge

This was going to be the best cup of tea ever, even if it did look piss weak and oily. He took a gentle sip. Motherfuckers. It was coffee. — Simon Dunn

We need to learn to dance more softly. — Nikki Rosen

Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade — Cassandra Clare

A gentle hug for older folks - and anyone else - makes them feel like the treasures they are. - Dianna Brumfield - — Gary Chapman

I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully. — Maggie Smith

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. — Ralph Cudworth

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. — Baron De Montesquieu

I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her. — James Lusarde

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. — William Hazlitt

KINDNESS IS one of the most powerful qualities a person can possess. It is like a gentle rain that falls everywhere, without excluding a single place. — Eline Snel

In order to have a good hand, it must be light, gentle, and firm. — Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere

I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing. — Raoul Vaneigem

Do not go gentle — Ally Condie

Never had I known a young girl so beautiful and at the same time so gentle and intelligent. Where were her men? Where had they failed? — Charles Bukowski

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar
and so very sad: What is this you have done? — Tosca Lee

If you possess a gentle spirit will move mountains. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What matters is not your outward appearance ... but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. — Saint Peter

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart. — James Martineau

Please go home with me and stay forever. I will hide you in my closet and take you out at night, and I promise to be gentle," he said between kisses. — Carolyn Brown

Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time. — Douglas Pagels

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. — Victor Hugo

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. — Mignon McLaughlin

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin — Hozier

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. — Helen Rowland

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it. — Oswald Chambers

At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine's eyes.
"Ave atque vale, Shadowhunter," he said. — Cassandra Clare

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days. — John Pipkin

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky. — Janice Mirikitani

Often we cannot hear God's gentle whisper because we allow the noise of our surroundings to choke out any possibility of recognizing His voice. — Shelene Bryan

In the end a gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor. — George R R Martin

A soft and gentle growth
Under a blue sky
Over a high mountain
Extended over a vast land
When the sun comes up
Start growing — Rixa White

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

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

A leaders gentle reaction and sound instruction are their greatest weapons. — Gary Rohrmayer

Be gentle, confident and action-oriented. Remember, your actions will make a difference. — Debasish Mridha

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. — Alvin Ailey

A woman who would make his dreams hers and allow him to be part of hers. One who was kind and gentle. Loving and tender. Sensible. — Debbie Macomber

I like clothes that exude feminine charms, a gentle style. It's just like being able to match with a dress with an attached hood. — Daesung

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing. — T. S. Eliot

Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury. — Brenna Yovanoff

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. — George Eliot

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

I am actually a very gentle person. — Charlie Trotter

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Love has a hundred gentle ends. — Leonora Speyer

a true relantionship is when you can tell each other anything & everything no secrey no lies... — The Gentle Author

Be gentle with yourself. — Reeds

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

Everyone is overcoming something, be gentle. — Nikki Rowe

Wait until you get inside. It's my favorite part.' And yes, gentle readers, I am that fucking smooth. — C.J. Roberts

There are no right and wrong choices," Tain said trying to keep his voice gentle. "There is only what we do with the choices we make. — Jennifer Ashley

Love isn't a gentle thing. I've found it carries a club and a bullwhip and doesn't care when or who it strikes. — Abigail Roux

Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason. — Kenneth Patchen

It is better to be kind than be impolite. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Listen' he whispered ferociously, like a ferocious breeze or a very gentle hurricane. — The Harvard Lampoon

The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose. — Nathalia Crane

People love gentle larceny. — Dan Aykroyd

Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that ... that gentleness isn't ... weakness. — Joan D. Vinge

His voice was gentle. His spoon was not. — Darling Adams

To create an inner peace of mind, be humble, gentle, harmonious, and kind. — Debasish Mridha

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. — Victor Hugo

Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty. — Khalil Gibran

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax. — Joseph Joubert

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. — Robert Breault

The day had, in fact, reached that gentle point when it was too late for housebreaking and too early for burglary. — Terry Pratchett

Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow ... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John — J.R. Ward

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions. — Sappho

Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit. — Spencer W. Kimball

Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle. — John O'Donohue

Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time ... — Philip The Apostle

With gentleness, you will calm every aggressive action. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after. — Herman Melville

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas. — Bruce Oldfield

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself. — Teresa Of Avila

His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! — William Shakespeare

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know. — Dante Alighieri

I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not. — Julie Garwood

A mother makes her son gentle in 20 years.... But a girl makes him mental in 20 minutes — Ashok

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly. — William Blake

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name. — Moliere

Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth. — May Sarton

There is no gentle here. — Danabelle Gutierrez