Softness Quotes

McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and his compulsion is our liberation.

In soft regions are born soft men.

The longer khakis are owned and the more they are washed, the softer and more comfortable they become.

If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.

Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was so soft there was no resistance. Hard things sank into her, they went right through her, and if she made a real effort, out the other side. Then she didn't have to see them or hear them, or even touch them.

Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance

Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can be compassionate, sensitive, soft, kind.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

Stay crunchy, even in milk.

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it.

Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character