Quotes About Speaking Gently

#1. It was your brother. He must be insane."

"Not insane, dear." Sybilla, speaking gently, contradicted. "Not insane. But magnificently drunk, I fear.

Dorothy Dunnett

#2. I lay curled in a fetal position one night, listening to my wife's voice. In the evenings, she just talked, speaking light into my darkness by reading verses to me. I needed a touchstone and she knew it, so she kept gently pointing toward Christ. She set aside her fears to speak into my own.

Ben Palpant

#3. And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#4. Was it wife soup and husband soup on the Other Side? Or was it simply soup?

Tom Robbins

#5. Cats cant speak, that's common sense.
-Yoruichi

Tite Kubo

#6. You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it." It's an easy way to escape responsibility.

Ice Cube

#7. We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths

Melody Beattie

#8. It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.

Jean-Paul Marat

#9. The sailors in the Construction Battalions had been nicknamed Seabees, based on the initials of the unit.

Alex Malcolm

#10. If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you 'Pro' many thingsPro-Peace, Pro-Human, Pro-Evolution, it makes you Pro-Communication, Pro-Diplomacy, Pro-Love, Pro-Understanding, Pro-Forgiveness.

Eddie Vedder

#11. She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Holly Black

#12. But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

David Sedaris