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A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. – Clive Staples Lewis
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. – e e cummings
What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. – Ovid
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead. – Woody Allen, Without Feathers
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. – Martin Luther King Jr.
A soft answer turneth away wrath. – Proverbs 151 Bible
A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. – Howard Tayler, Rule 12: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Schlock Mercenary
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. – Bible, Proverbs 15:1 (KJV)
Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift. – Dejan Stojanovic
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. – William Shakespeare
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. – William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view. – George Bush
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft – Theodore Roosevelt
Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds. – Black Elk
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye. – Leonard
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. – Carolyn Kenmore
In soft regions are born soft men. – Herodotus
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose – Johann von Goethe
Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God. – Aimee Martin
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. – Louis Kronenberger

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