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My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and ter... ALVIN AILEY He was such a gentle soul. He was probably much more complex than people realized.
DAWN WELLS
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another,... ARISTOTLE
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another,... ARISTOTLE He was lined up straight with the ship canal. All of a sudden, he went port (left) and hit the wall.
DALE MITCHELL But you should never let that gentle personality fool you - he could have a temper at times.
CHARLIE CREAMER
Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY
The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immorta... LUDWIG FEUERBACH I knew he had a short temper, but I never thought he would take something that far. He could have co...
GEORGE CLINE My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he ...
MITCH PILEGGI
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER After the first day, he went back over to the range and hit balls. Then he worked on his short game ...
DON PETERSON When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT He was a gentleman and a gentle man, who never had a bad word about any situation. He saw the good i...
BRENT JOHNSTON
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. JEFFREY ARCHER
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he k... OLIVER CROMWELL
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he k... OLIVER CROMWELL I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitu...
BOHUMIL HRABAL It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the cou...
BOHUMIL HRABAL No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in ...
BOHUMIL HRABAL Trembling as usual, I dropped to one knee and, holding on to the drum with one hand, looked up, wond...
BOHUMIL HRABAL Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like ...
BOHUMIL HRABAL His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and fr...
THOMAS W. MARTIN He went out there and gave it everything he had, but unfortunately he had some kind of bug. I think ...
VINCE TROMBETTI When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the ey...
BIBLE When Lofton came into the dugout, he said it was hard to see anything that had any kind of break to ...
BRETT MYERS Doc was an extraordinary person. He was a gentle man and a very nice person -- a very patient, const...
CARL WENTWORTH When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Why could he not have chosen some other woman? Why Avelina? But he knew why. It was because she had ...
MELANIE DICKERSON
He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to beco... HUGH LAURIE I don't think he realized I was right behind him. He had his back turned, and I just swatted his sti...
JASON POMINVILLE Einstein was a really interesting guy. He wasn't some dutiful little chap who went through the acade...
GARY JOHNSTONE He was a good friend and a sweet, gentle man.
LAUREN ZIMMERMAN He was a gentle giant, a big guy with a big heart.
ANN MURPHY He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with...Hector had only shared enjoyment with...
FRANçOIS LELORD He helped so much with the young guys. He was just easy to talk to and would give you a straight ans...
LARRY ROTHSCHILD He had some really sharp pitches. He was just a little bit up on occasion. He made some really nice ...
JOE MADDON
My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And... MARK HELPRIN When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them;...
BIBLE
Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable,... PLATO
It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle. MATT DILLON
Carl Reiner. He had an entrenched sense of glee; he used humor as a gentle way of speaking difficult... STEVE MARTIN There was one kid, he said he watched us the last couple of years and he really went into depth abou...
LEWIS THORPE He is a neighbor of the family she is staying with, and when he went online, he saw my notice. He ca...
DOROTHY DEMBOSKI
He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. EDWIN EDWARDS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We regard it here as reliable. It always has an edge, but it's backed up with facts, and this is ano...
BRIAN ROSS Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He w...
BRIAN KILMEADE Bob was in a hospital in Fairhope, Alabama, ... A few days after he went through triage for his arms...
DEBBIE JOHNSON We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought ev...
BRENDAN BAYLISS Swinging an ax against the door certainly involves violence, but it was not directly against a perso...
WILLIAM SHARP Bob Novak called me before he went to print with the report and he said a CIA source had told him th...
JOE WILSON He was straight as an arrow, a churchgoing kid, everyone liked him. I don't understand why things li...
MICKEY CROUCH Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?
T.C. BOYLE [He initially clashed with the autocratic director.] One day he chewed me out in front of a lot of p...
BROCK PETERS
His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
And at that moment, Thibaut knew he was a murderer. He had murdered his brother that night; he had t... C. JOYBELL C. One night after a show he gave me a gift. When I opened up the bag, he had made out of clay and drie...
DANE COOK He was definitely a guy who played with a soul and energy. Even when he was on offense, he was a big...
CHAD ELLIS
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was... DOUGLAS ADAMS He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can.
JOHN ARAGON He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opp...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN I think he was arrested because he had given an interview with a journalist and they discovered he w...
ABDULLAHI ABDEL KARIM
For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO When told he was under arrest, (Frank) refused to leave peacefully. After a short struggle, he was t...
ERICA SMITH Perry went from 270 to 300-plus from junior to senior season. He lifted heavily and participated in ...
JOHN JACKSON I went into remission after I had my first treatment in 2001, and everything was fine.
ELIDORE LEWIS
But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a myster... C.S. LEWIS
Yes, God saved us because He loved us. But He is God. He has infinite imagination. Couldn’t He hav... BRENNAN MANNING I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted,...
MILO VENTIMIGLIA He did a fabulous job. He was giving her everything he had, and I'm happy for him.
MARK MARTIN
God is short of responsible men which explains why he said “who shall I send and who would go for ... SUNDAY ADELAJA I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walke...
RACHEL JOYCE When he was a child, he was sexually assaulted. After everything he has been through, nothing surpri...
CATHY MURPHY
A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad
... OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort o... KENNETH GRAHAME He didn't think he was getting a fair shake in the media, which is why he hired me.
AUDREY LEWIS
Bob Iger, Disney's chief operating officer, had to step in and do damage control. He was as sensible... WALTER ISAACSON
He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became... JAMES JOYCE
As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. H... FRANCINE RIVERS I signed a baby's head one time, which I thought was an odd situation. I had a guy show me a tat...
ERIC CHURCH He was always a good listener. He wasn't one of those kids who came on the team and thought he knew ...
JACK RINGEL
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not o... ROBERTSON DAVIES
Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assass... CHRISTINA ENGELA
Once he went into the mountains on a clear, sunny day, and wandered about for a long time with a tor... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Parker comforted them. He was quiet and gentle. He was what they needed.
STEVE FRANK
The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire.He is responsible for humanity, for animals ev...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD He had an outstanding game with two fifties and four wickets to round off a week in which he became ...
ALASTAIR COOK After the first and second shot, he was still coming at her. After the third shot, he paused and loo...
ERICK MCINTOSH
His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble pro... JOSEPH CONRAD But it affected his right side. It affected his speech. He was diagnosed with short-term memory. He ...
DIANE THOMAS
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. DEJAN STOJANOVIC He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave ...
NEIL TENNANT
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it... JIM MORRISON He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen - that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type a...
RUTH DRAPER The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor in...
KNUT HAMSUN
He was a true showman. He had not only the talent, but he had the ability to promote that talent. Th... GAY TALESE His kisses were gifts. He kissed with everything he had, with power and passion and hunger and love....
SYLVIA DAY Pete Sessions now has a responsibility to explain why he became an advocate for Malaysia after this ...
MATT ANGLE Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ...
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