49 Gently Quotes for You to Enjoy

For months before he passed, my dad would have terrible night sweats, and soak through his sheets, often several times a night. Each time, mom would gently roll him over, replace the sheets, and roll him back - then spend the whole next day washing several sets of sheets, only to repeat the routine each night. John Hickenlooper

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The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors, never menaces or frightens children, plays gently with other dogs, won't jump on the UPS guy, never rolls in gross things, eats only the appropriate food at the right time, and never chews anything not meant for him. This dog does not exist. Jon Katz

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Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor. Jon Pertwee

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Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. Jonathan Sacks

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The 'National Suit Drive' collects gently used professional attire, but what it's really collecting is inspiration and a chance for men to feel empowered as they head into their next job interview. Joseph Abboud

Job Men Drive National Interview Collecting Inspiration Head Feel Attire Empowered Gently Really Next Used Professional Chance Suit

Coffee must be treated gently and smoothed out. I hadn't realised it was so temperamental. Justin Cartwright

Coffee Out Must Temperamental Gently Realised Treated

Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it. Karisma Kapoor

Woman Training Speak Feeling Big Everything Way India Abruptly Maids Spoken Come Like Know Instructed Gently Egos Being While Them Your Right Things Appreciate

The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings. Lance Loud

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If there are tensions between America and China, we will be asked to pick a side. It may not be directly, but you will get the message that, 'We would like you to be with us, and are you with us? If not, does that mean you're against us?' And that's to put it gently. Lee Hsien Loong

I think we all have our demons and our various shortcomings, and it would be nice if people felt more gently about other people, but also about themselves. Michelle Huneven

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I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it. Mo Rocca

I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed. Peter Shaffer

Faith Parents Single Think Brought About Something Had Household Gently Imposed Up Discussion Just Just Something Ever Orthodox Jewish

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. Rudolph A. Marcus

Life Me Problem Three My Life Reading Background Months Study Toward Particular Particular Problem Gently Began After Working Preliminary Theorist Oscar

For a while, gently bumping into my nightstand meant a pile of 50 books clattering onto my head and the floor. After the 10th time this happened, I moved most of the books to a shelf in the spare room. Now, my nightstand is sort of like a bookish country club. And not all books get in. Sabaa Tahir

Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto. Sandra Tsing Loh

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A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus! Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Wherever you interact with people, you have the opportunity to influence people. This isn't something you necessarily jam down somebody's throat, but it is something you can - gently and over time - begin to cultivate wherever you are. Tim Ryan

Time You People Opportunity Somebody Down Something Throat Over Gently Cultivate Begin Interact Influence Jam Wherever Necessarily

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with. Walter Murch

Work Job Frame Various Various Parts Attention Look Parts Gently Audience Editor How Where Manipulating Cut Prod Succession Images

It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain! William Morris Hunt

When I first met Jeff Bezos back in the late 90s, the only automated thing in his office was a rotating fan, gently blowing across a pair of identical blue shirts he'd hung on a water pipe behind his desk. Marc Randolph

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My Democratic friends just can't accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president - it's called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a 'Hurt Feelings Report' and let's move on. John Kennedy

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