Soft And Strong Quotes

#1. I started with her feet. I knelt and kissed them; each toe was soft and strong.

Thomas Ullman

#2. When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#3. He's soft and strong at the same time; beautiful and cold like a polished japanese katana.

Kazuma Kodaka

#4. Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.

Kristin Armstrong

#5. Women are mysterious, he mused.
She laughed, In what way?
They're a study in contrast: soft and strong, fierce and gentle. They can do everything, of course, and yet one feels compelled to do everything for them.

Sylvain Reynard

#6. Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.

Yasmin Mogahed

#7. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.

Lady Gaga

#8. Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful ... You can be all of these things.'

Maria Shriver

#9. Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong.

Lao-Tzu

#10. When you act strong you are truly weak. When you are soft and kind your heart is truly strong.

Debasish Mridha

#11. There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

Connie Britton

#12. This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.

Lauren Kate

#13. For such a strong, physically intimidating guy, he was so freaking soft. So playful, so generous with affection. So everything I wanted. And everything I didn't think I could handle.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#14. I threw everything we had together - the strong roots and stems and leaves and beautiful soft blossoms of sisterhood - into the earth with you. And I was left standing on the edge, so diminished by the loss that I thought I could no longer be there.

Rosamund Lupton

#15. Let those who have never seen the inhumanity of man to man not think that soft words and examples in disarmament will do anything to prevent domination by the strong.

Arthur Charles

#16. It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's chest in his sleep.

Herman Melville

#17. The soft and weak overcome the hard and strong.

Laozi

#18. Oh no," she says. Soft because I am the older one, but very strong. (I've noticed it. All of a sudden they look at you, and then it comes to them, young people, they are bound to outlast you, so they temper up their icy steel and stare into about an inch away from you a lot. Have you noticed it?) At

Grace Paley

#19. It is better to be soft and kind than strong and rude.

Debasish Mridha

#20. As the day died and the afterglow stretched upward in the soft, empty sky, the Hat Creek outfit, seven strong, crossed the river and rode southeast, toward the Hacienda Flores.

Larry McMurtry

#21. While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Robert Teeter

#22. Women can be strong, Colum. Very strong when they have to be or when they're forced to be. On the outside we are like little rose petals, all soft and sweet, but on the inside we're often made of something a lot tougher because we have to be

Carolyn Brown

#23. Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

Kahlil Gibran

#24. Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Edwin Arnold

#25. Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

Cher

#26. We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

Joan Halifax

#27. I think there's a whole bunch of things that go along with being a girl. You're not supposed to have opinions or be tough or strong. You're supposed to be soft and vulnerable, and I find those qualities important in both men and women.

Ellen DeGeneres

#28. What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.

Laozi

#29. As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and room for a child to curl close to her side; how she could be soft enough to serve as a pillow and strong enough to move heaven and earth.

Jodi Picoult

#30. Even though she was soft and kind, her thoughts were strong like steel.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

#32. Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#33. By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life.

Debbie Ford

#34. Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Lao-Tzu

#35. My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.

Juliet Marillier

#36. The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

Julian Grenfell

#37. Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Edwin Arnold

#38. Therefore the place of what is firm and strong is below, and that of what is soft and weak is above.

Lao-Tzu

#39. You can bend a man and make him soft, or you can bend yourself and make him strong. But you will never have the man you've dreamed of unless you let him lead.

Wayne Thomas Batson

#40. Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

Laozi

#41. Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

Zen Proverb

#42. I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.

Carrie-Anne Moss

#43. The Scots take what they want when they want it. She also said they have special preferences." "And what might those be?" Beak asked. "Strong horses, fat sheep, and soft women," Mary said. "Horses, sheep, and women?

Julie Garwood

#44. Stung, I lifted my eyes to his and saw them as if for the first time. Eyes the color of rain, soft as dew and strong enough to etch a mountainside. Tears shimmered there - tears, ay Mother! Or maybe they were in my own eyes.

Deborah Wheeler

#45. She wanted his strong, capable hands on her blody and those soft lips locked with hers. She wanted to be held tight and kissed until she could forget-if only for a few precious minutes-that her life as she knew it had evaporated in a cloud of smoke and flame and violence.

Melissa Cutler

#46. She saw night lights in the rooms of the babies who dreamed soft seersucker dreams, drugged happy with the heat, their pink baby bodies curled against worn out cotton, not fearing Hitler yet, their strong, tiny hearts beating in unison with the trees and the creeks and the bayou

Rebecca Wells

#47. When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together.

Joseph Addison

#48. It also meant mornings of glory such as this one, in which the snow, white almost to blueness, lay like a soft comforter over the hills, and birches and pines indestructibly held their ground, rigid lines against the snow and sky, very thin and very strong like Vermonters.

John Knowles

#49. A SOFT fall rain slips down through the trees and the smell of ocean is so strong that it can almost be licked off the air.

Sebastian Junger

#50. As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now the fierce weeds pressed in to destroy the pampered nursling's of man.

George R. Stewart

#51. A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life, and a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, say, or a cathedral, or myself.

Anonymous

#52. The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.

Lao-Tzu

#53. Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

Ovid

#54. To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water.

Jeffrey Rasley

#55. I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

Charlotte Bronte

#56. We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.

John Stott

#57. There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it; - for there is nothing (so effectual) for which it can be changed.

Lao-Tzu

#58. Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady and emotionally soft

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#59. Strong men need strong love, and a soft touch. Once you fall in love with a man like that, there's no going back to ordinary.

Lauren Gilley

#60. She studied his profile, the high cheekbones, deep-set eyes, strong, masculine nose, and full, sensuous mouth, fixing on the last, her insides quivering at the thought of those soft and knowing lips ...

Victoria Vane

#61. The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

George Balanchine

#62. Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically.

Madison Grant

#63. Being strong doesn't mean you can't be soft. Working hard to meet your goals doesn't mean you can't live. And living a certain way your entire life doesn't mean you can't ever change. Life is fluid. The only way to run yourself ashore is to not follow the change and contour of the curves.

Laurel Ulen Curtis