Soften The Blow Quotes

#1. History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.

Terry Pratchett

#2. And the way it felt?" I whisper, as if that might soften the blow of embarrassment I'm about to deal. "Is that how you were feeling - how you feel - about me?"
A breeze comes off the ocean, and my skin feels strangely empty and open as he gives an almost imperceptible nod.

Elizabeth Norris

#3. I tend to be most interested in the kinds of people that don't sweeten or dilute themselves for the sake of people's tastes.Who never soften the blow for who they are.I prefer the people that i connect with to be full strength and searing hot. And able to rouse my weary,idle heart.

Beau Taplin

#4. Remember that whenever you were being kicked, there was no one standing beside you to soften the blow. No one there to help you lick those wounds or protect you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

Paula Abdul

#6. After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.

Betsy Brandt

#7. I have so many priceless memories to embrace at that final moment that it will soften the blow. I know my friends will continue the fight, and they will ensure victory.

Karen Swart

#8. A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

Mary Garden

#9. An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

B.F. Skinner

#10. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

#11. From "Famous"
I want to be famous the in the way a pulley is famous,/or a buttonhole,not because it did anything spectacular,/but because it never forgot what it could do.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#12. Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

Dermot Mulroney

#13. He looks like the kind of boy who would jump trains, strum guitars, and pass a joint.

Heather Demetrios

#14. I've come to the conclusion that all Human females are crazy.

Anna Carven

#15. I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!

Veronica Roth

#16. What a crazy idea to put me on a family show!

Howard Stern

#17. All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

Pat Brown

#18. I am not alone even in solitude.

Debasish Mridha

#19. His ascent was slow - the blow to the head must have disoriented him worse than he let on - so I went behind, ready to catch him should he lose his balance. Well, I could soften his landing when he hit the floor. Maybe.

Jodi Meadows

#20. To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

Edwin Louis Cole