Quotes with soft-eyed

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  • Carrie Mae Weems The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.
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  • Benjamin Clementine The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Berthold Auerbach The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Ben Jonson The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
    As some soft chime had stroked the air;
    And, though the sound were parted thence,
    Still left an echo in the sense.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Beverly Sills There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Walt Whitman There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Abraham Cowley Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea, Which open all their pores to thee, Like a clear river thou dost glide, And with they living stream through the close channel slide.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Hubert Humphrey To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • William Shakespeare To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are wall-eyed.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bill Griffith Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bo Schembechler When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.
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  • Ovid Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Aaron Hill Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Thomas Fuller Soft words are hard arguments.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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