Soft Quotes

If there be light, then there is darkness if cold, heat if height, depth if solid, fluid if hard, soft if rough, smooth if calm, tempest if prosperity, adversity if life, death. (Pythagoras)
In soft regions are born soft men. View quote
Herodotus
The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong. View quote
Laozi
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me. View quote
Bobby Fischer
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. View quote
Desmond Tutu
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else. View quote
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. View quote
C. S. Lewis
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. (Honoré de Balzac)
Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow. View quote
Vitruvius
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. View quote
Vitruvius
The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. View quote
Karl Menninger
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. View quote
Chris Abani
I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself. View quote
James Frey
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.... View quote
Jack Kerouac
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. View quote
William Gibson
CAT, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroke the air And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense. View quote
Ben Jonson
No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it. (Grace Slick)
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I own the soft impeachment. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The true love is a state of half-madness, of some kind of soft obsession, ruling a so delicate kind of feeling that can lead a person from the greatest happiness to the most dreadful pain. View quote
Lima Barreto