Speak Softly Quotes

#1. If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

Jake Roberts

#2. The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

Cesare Pavese

#3. In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are kind, A tongue that will speak softly, A mind full of wisdom, A heart that understands.

Javan

#4. [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

Susan Cain

#5. Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.

Jennifer Worth

#6. Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#7. However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.

John Of The Cross

#8. Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Teddy Roosevelt

#9. Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

#10. Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.

George R R Martin

#11. I speak softly, looking at her mouth as I do. "Do you remember the orange grove, Olivia?

Tarryn Fisher

#12. Bon chance, mon ami, Dante called softly.
Levet allowed himself a small smile. A vampire who could speak French. He couldn't be all bad.

Alexandra Ivy

#13. We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#14. I kissed him softly, savouring the feel of his lips, and I prayed that this wasn't the last time I got to speak to him, that this wasn't the last kiss we ever had.

Kirsty Moseley

#15. In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old hurts and fondly of past loves, while its demands and anxieties resound throughout me in multitudes.
I could be calm and composed all day long, but the moment it is dark, my mind riots.

Beau Taplin

#16. The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.

Gaius Marius

#17. However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

Teresa Of Avila

#18. Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

Terry Pratchett

#19. I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

Anna Akhmatova

#20. Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,' she said softly. 'They speak what will be, not what we want to hear.

Barbara Erskine

#21. It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

Fareed Zakaria

#22. Let the gods speak softly of us

Ezra Pound

#23. Teddy Roosevelt spoke softly and carried a big stick; Donald Trump speaks loudly and carries a big shtick.

Michael R. Burch

#24. There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

#25. Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

Edmond Rostand

#26. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

William O. Douglas

#27. Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

Isaac Watts

#28. Just as I am drifting off to sleep, he speak again, so softly I almost cannot be certain it is not a dream.
I am sorry. You make me ashamed of what we are, of what little we can offer you, and I lashed out at you when what I really wanted was to punish my own dark thoughts.

Robin LaFevers

#29. Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. -

Bella Abzug

#30. God speaks as softly as he can and as loud as he has to.

Rafi Zabor

#31. Speak softly, I'm getting my massage

Theodore Roosevelt

#32. Teddy Roosevelt ... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

Gerald R. Ford

#33. Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,
Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long
But at my back in a cold blast I hear
The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear

T. S. Eliot

#34. Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

Banksy

#35. You're such a beast," I speak softly into his ear before nipping his lope lightly with my teeth. "But I'm your beast, and baby ... every Beauty needs a Beast.

Harper Sloan