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.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
My first novel, ‘Housekeeping,’ was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.
Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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.
Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
I sometimes wash my face at night with Cetaphil, which I like because it’s a really gentle face wash.
I’m not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
It requires more strength to be gentle, so it’s the everyday encounters of life that I think we’ve prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.
For any child, boy or girl, a father is both Jedi and Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi – gentle and calming and good – and Vader, fierce and terrifying.
People love gentle larceny.
Meeting forensic patients for the first time could occasionally be an unnerving experience. They often came across as mild and gentle people, but the details of the crimes were harrowing in the extreme.
The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.
‘Sol Invictus’ works like your basic FNM record: the sequencing is an artful job, hustling you politely through all the gentle, harsh, weird surprises that follow – and then when it’s over, you get back on the ride and start over, just like Space Mountain.
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
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.
I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.
Old #64 chose… a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.
Usually in the evenings, I go for a one-hour road session for a gentle recovery road ride. It’s a really steady stint with the main focus being to loosen the body down.
I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.
Rajiv was a very gentle and extremely jovial person. It is so tough to believe that he is gone.
One time I had to file the teeth of a carthorse. They’re such gentle creatures.
The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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.
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Cat Stevens’ music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind.
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.
If you are blonde with a little nose people always think you are gentle and not very bright.
Later in life, I learnt that in order to deal with people, one has to be gentle and give them respect. That always works.
I have never forgotten John Candy’s generosity. He showed me how to be a gentle leader.
It has taken me so long to understand my skin, but the formula that works best for me is, gentle and less is more. But I do cleanse my skin well at night with a good natural cleanser by Dr. Hauschka or Avalon Organics.
I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.
My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.
My face wash is the thing I care about the most. I don’t think I’ve ever gone to bed without washing my face. I switch it up. I use Obagi Nu-Derm Gentle Cleanser or Lait U Biologique Recherche in the morning or at night.
Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle.
My advice is don’t scrub your makeup off your eyes; be gentle.
I’m a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.
I love kids and animals. I’m a pretty gentle guy.
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
There is a chapter in ‘Gentle Regrets’ called ‘Coming Home’ which is really me expressing my later admiration for my father’s public spirit.
They’ve been learning technique since they were babies. That’s their focus and emphasis. For example, in England, the day after a game is usually a day off or some gentle warm-downs, but in Spain, we come in and do really intense passing drills and technical work.
If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‘You don’t know how to use the English language,’ or ‘How could you make that argument?’ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.
I spend 70% of my time laughing. I don’t walk around all dark. I might take my photos like that because I’m not a clown. But I’m a really soft, feminine, gentle, normal guy.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
The stoic drama ‘A Somewhat Gentle Man’ is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard’s complexion. It’s a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
The food and the people in Thailand never let you down and Bangkok is an astonishing place – the culture’s lovely and gentle.
To have a dutiful family, the father’s principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.
I’m shy, but I’m not clinically shy. I don’t have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
After I’d met her, a mutual friend prompted me to ask her out for dinner, but she said she had a night shoot. I thought it was her gentle way of rejecting me. The next day she invited me for a drink at the Pierre hotel, which turned into a three-hour talk.
All the guys on ‘Breaking Bad’ are really gentle and gorgeous creatures.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That’s why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
The spark for ‘In Praise of Slowness’ came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.
