49 Gently Quotes for You to Enjoy

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. Confucius

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table. Leo Buscaglia

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You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. Phil Crosby

Leadership You People Lead Toward Know Gently Right

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. John Updike

Worlds Others Consistently Besides Some Seem Collins Poems More Writes Gently Were Than Lovely Billy Describe Serious Startling

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it. Philip Sidney

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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. Samuel Beckett

Good Day Memories Old Down Too Other Chronicle Worst One Day Recognize Bad Able Only Unchanging He Days Like Gently His Die Any Little Should Reason Grow Right

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. Alexandre Dumas

Alone World Seriously Single Doubt Thinking Find Some Direction He Force Sought Gently His Brain Times Did Door Which Moving Succeed Should Racking Four Lever

I'm usually woken by a vibration on my up-band. It's the gradual vibration for about ten seconds, and then the chimes of my blue light. It's just a way to wake gently. It all gently puts me into awake-mode. I play music off of my Sonos playlist. 'The Rachmaninoff Concerto 3 in D-minor', 1st movement. Amy Tan

I think it's really hard for teenage girls in London to just gently... have a life. Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend. Carol Vorderman

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I don't know how to put this gently, but I'm trying to tackle the biggest question of all, which is the God question. Charlie Trotter

God Tackle Put Know Gently How Question Trying Biggest Which

Cops in New York City don't have the best reputation. It's a fast-paced city, and they deal with a lot, and many people have seen lots of cops interact with the public utilizing what can be gently called 'not the best customer service.' Chris Gethard

Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods. David Suzuki

Time Nature You Remember Walk Our Out Both Parks Stewards Gently Go Surrounds Us Next Inhabitants Next Time Tread Streets

When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What is the house that these characters would want to live in?' I wanted to paint a picture and color scheme that I could work around. I gently apply different daubs to see what fits to match the color I have in mind with these characters. Dev Hynes

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi, Sweetpea.' Not 'Buddy' or 'Little Man.' Sweetpea. The word filled me with unanticipated comfort. Faith Salie

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with. Henry S. Haskins

Faith Man Treat Believe Other He Gently

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell

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I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water. James E. Faust

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Jean Paul

Inspirational Joy Down Like Dew Gently Does Us Descend Evening

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