George Gently Quotes

#1. The worst thing we can do for the needy is neglect them. The second worst thing we can do is subsidize them, helping people get through a day while ignoring how we can help people get through their lives.

David Platt

#2. Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#3. I didn't fall in love with how you looked," he murmured as his hand rose, gently brushing my cheek. "I fell in love with you."
My eyes watered. And everything inside me melted into molten goo. "You are getting entirely too good at making a dragon cry," I saw and kissed him.

Julie Kagawa

#4. Amy doesn't love you."
George says it gently--like she's sympathetically sticking a piece of glass straight through my left eye.

Cath Crowley

#5. At length she gently pushed me away, and with the words, "Go, my son, and do something worth doing," turned back, and, entering the cottage, closed the door behind her. I felt very desolate as I went. CHAPTER

George MacDonald

#6. Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

John Mayer

#8. He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

Owen Feltham

#9. Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.

Hideo Kojima

#11. My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

W. H. Auden

#12. Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Quintilian

#14. I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps

George Harrison

#15. See Time has touched me gently in his race,
And left no odious furrows in my face.

George Crabbe

#16. The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.

Jim Elliot

#17. Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

George Eliot

#18. Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.

Maya Banks

#19. I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

George Washington

#20. She rolled over and stretched, blinking up at the blue sky. The tips of the long grasses swished gently in the breeze. The hot sun pressed down on her so that she felt hot and empty. Slowly, the meadow began to fulfill its promise.

Elizabeth George Speare

#21. Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

Jesse Ventura

#22. There are times you feel the world has turned its back on you, you feel so alone, no one to turn to. There is one person who's willing to listen to you and He's always with you. Just say the word and He'll answer every question you have.

Euginia Herlihy

#23. My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."
"Then it may be rescued and healed," said Dorothea.

George Eliot