Ungentle Quotes

#1. Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#3. There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.

Edward Dahlberg

#4. You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

Henry Bolingbroke

#5. He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

William Shakespeare

#6. I say!" he said. "Are you broke?"
Nelly laughed.
"Am I? If dollars were doughnuts, I wouldn't even have the hole in the
middle.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Just because I don't like you very much doesn't mean I don't love you," said Kessler. "I raised you for ten years; you're my daughter whether you like it or not.

Dan Wells

#9. Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

Philip Pearlstein

#10. I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.

Geoffrey Holder

#11. She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls' hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

Cynthia Voigt

#12. It was as if there was a place called After, and if I could just push my family across to that shore, then everything would be all right. There would be time for all these "soft" problems in the land of After.

William Landay

#13. I had to ask the burning question as we walked to the door. "How's it feel to throw a man off a building twenty stories up?"
"Good. Kind of liberating actually. Educational too. I never knew a man could scream so loud. Or so long.

KevaD

#14. I stared, like always. A tree in the Petrified Forest. I looked down at my hands and feet and ordered them to move, only they wouldn't.

Tracy Bilen

#15. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

Oscar Wilde

#16. We see no reason why a sustainable world needs to leave anyone living in poverty. Quite the contrary, we think such a world would have to provide material security to all its people.

Donella H. Meadows

#17. She was his; he was hers. The world could fall apart, and they'd still be one.

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss