Soft Quotes

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Love, America

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, End, Thinking

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis

Hell, Road, Gentle

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt

Possible, Hit, Avoid

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba

Same, Last, House

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.
Charlie Sheen

Time, Before, Coffee

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Theodore Roosevelt

Crime, Hit, Hitting

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John Keats

Kiss, Bliss, Endless

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud

Until, Rest, Voice

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
H. L. Mencken

Heart, Hard, Grow

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats

Sleep, Deep, Book

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
Talib Kweli

Humble, Hard, Arrogant

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Love, God

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman

Music, Marriage, Time

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Mother, Long

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
Drew Barrymore

Rather, Times, Ocean

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman

Universe, Makes, Object

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
Doug Coupland

Thinking, Brain, Down

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson

Respect, Battle, Treating

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
Max Muller

Love, Mother, Heart

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
E. M. Forster

Stand, Squashed

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Strong, Mind, Heart

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Hard, Broken, Lest

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
Pam Brown

Sweet, Feet, Jaws

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber

Fear, Sleep, Matter

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
Alexander Chase

Rude, Taken, Refusal

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, Die, Memory

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

Music, Simple, Stupidity

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
Cher

Men, Strong, Disposable

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