Soft Quotes - page 3

Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers. (Margaret Atwood)
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. View quote
Anne Rice
When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, "What's he doing hitting the government?" View quote
Billy Crystal
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together. View quote
Joseph Addison
The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers. View quote
John Dryden
If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk. View quote
Amy Tan
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. View quote
Rebecca West
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. View quote
Ann Richards
But when a snowflake, brave and meek, Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek, It starts-"How warm and soft the day!" "'T is summer!" and it melts away. View quote
Mary Mapes Dodge
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. View quote
Donna Tartt
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. (Henny Youngman)
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. View quote
John Jay Chapman
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. View quote
John Jay Chapman
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer. View quote
Anne Sexton
Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose. View quote
Edith Wharton
A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. View quote
Aravind Adiga
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father. View quote
Murray Rothbard
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. View quote
E. E. Cummings
If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard. View quote
Bob Woodward
There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.' View quote
Leo Burnett
All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency - the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint - are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership - it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships. (Ha-Joon Chang)
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by "hard" data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by "soft" data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways. View quote
A. E. Housman
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov