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Tag Name "Gently" (259)

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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. Why do you try to make friends of them? asked an associate. You should try to destroy them. Am I not destroying my enemies, Lincoln gently replied, when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
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Every object is beautiful in motion a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
Abigail Adams
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But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.
Jamie Ford
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You’re the greatest risk I’ve ever taken.” His pressed his lips gently to mine. “And the greatest reward.
Sylvia Day
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This sound meditation is gentle and subtle, but its benefits are extensive, in that it allows you to gently release tension that arises from your present circumstances, and if you choose to work with it further it can help release negativity from your past.
Tom Kenyon
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A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce. See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.
Gena Showalter
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Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.
Margaret Thatcher
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Use your power gently.
William Nicholson
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I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
William Shakespeare
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
Kate Reardon
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What did Romeo and Juliet do?” They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison-
Gordon Korman
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I watched Baeyer activating magnesium with iodine for a difficult Grignard reaction it was done in a test tube, which he watched carefully as he moved it gently by hand over a flame for three quarters of an hour. The test tube was the apparatus to Baeyer.
Richard Willstatter
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Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back such is the nature of man.
Saint Francis de Sales
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Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
Seneca the Younger
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Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it. As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.
Cinda Williams Chima
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One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
Adrian Hodges
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Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light.
Laozi
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If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.
Pope Francis
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What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an I am and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.
Alfred W. Crosby
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Fix your awareness gently on the center of your chest. Try to feel love.
Frederick Lenz
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.
Hans Christian von Baeyer
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I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.
Wild Bill Hickok
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