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Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! -- Bryan Procter
Gently to hear, kindly to judge. -- William Shakespeare
Gently touching with the charm of poetry. -- Lucretius
[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues. -- Samuel Barnett
The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely. -- Samuel Barnett
Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust. -- Miljenko Jergovic
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness. -- Deborah Day
Gently guide the tender vine else it become wild, tangled and impossible. -- Kathryn Hall
There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently. -- Arvind Ethan David
Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. -- Alice Munro
He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, Have I lost you love~? -- Erin Jamison
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! -- Bryan Procter
Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) . -- Arvind Ethan David
Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns. -- Lionel Johnson
He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway -- Alice Sebold
Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head. -- Isaac Watts
Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people. -- Samuel Barnett
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence." -- Rumi
Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light. -- Laozi
When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head. -- Li Bai
The great thing about the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that there is so much more to be revealed. There are questions about what each of these characters actually know, and nothing is what it seems. -- Samuel Barnett
That's it. Gently now," Reagan said to Nellie. "We'll move onto the hard stuff tomorrow." "This...isn't...the hard stuff?" Nellie spit out through gritted teeth. Reagan grinned. "You really hate me right now, don't you?" "Immeasurably." "Good. Give me ten. -- Judy Blundell
Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much as it used to look years ago. -- Virginia Woolf
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. -- Walt Whitman
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually. -- John Newton
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. -- Phil Crosby
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. -- Jean Paul
I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench. -- Satchel Paige
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. -- Herman Melville
I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along. -- Andrew Buchan
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you. -- Tennessee Williams
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. -- Confucius
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage. -- Terry Pratchett
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise. -- Oscar Niemeyer
You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there. -- Amy Grant
I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it. -- Mo Rocca
When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family. -- Jo Beverley
I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water. -- James E. Faust
I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are disabled, and will, when they die, carry them gently into a heavenly life where every person is forever whole. -- Lewis B. Smedes
Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore. -- Wild Bill Hickok
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. -- Jonathan Sacks
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. -- Alexandre Dumas
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work. -- Maggie Stiefvater
My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon. -- Julia Glass
Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it. -- Karisma Kapoor
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it. -- Philip Sidney
Use your power gently. -- William Nicholson
Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Smile often. Speak gently. Be kind. -- Edgar Cayce
Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently. -- John Updike
Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion. -- Kate Reardon
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. -- Alexander Pope
To get, simply release, and then gently invite. -- Bryant McGill
Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways. -- Billy Connolly
I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.' -- Daniel Radcliffe
Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self. -- Bassui Tokusho
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently. -- Seneca the Younger
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently. -- Anatole France
Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution. -- Ajahn Sumedho
Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves. -- Albert Camus
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death. -- Antonin Artaud
All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others. -- David Steel
Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.... -- Satchel Paige
Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself. -- Merle Shain
Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming. -- Ilona Andrews
Speak gently to young women as you would to your sisters -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor. -- Jon Pertwee
Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind. -- Sarah McLachlan
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar. -- Aeschylus
Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. -- Robert Breault
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently. -- Charles Baudelaire
I loved her as the sun loves the flower: ever-present, nourishingly, and gently. -- Carlos Salinas
There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece. -- Sarah Dessen
He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips. -- Jodi Picoult
Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave. -- Caroline Norton
Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman -- Laozi
Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want. -- Rumi
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Fix your awareness gently on the center of your chest. Try to feel love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with. -- Henry S. Haskins
Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart. -- Heather Wolf
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. -- Alexander Pope
i'm glad to be alive in a world wherehis gently awakening eyesnourish the morning sun. -- Sanober Khan
When you leave, weary of me, without a word, I shall gently let you go. -- Kim Sowol
Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility. -- Plato
When you leave,weary of me,without a word I shall gently let you go. -- Kim Sowol
A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away -- Emily Dickinson
I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. -- George Washington
Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable? -- Rumi
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. -- Gerald Durrell
While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment. -- Sharon Salzberg
Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. -- Oscar Wilde
And then they kiss. Slowly, gently. Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing. -- Lisa McMann
Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ... -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
Every heart has a door; knock it gently! If the door is not opened, leave gently! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything. -- John Coltrane
Your intuition will most likely push you gently toward taking some appropriate risks and trying new things. -- Shakti Gawain
Brahma and AiravataLong ago in lands of golden sandBrahma turned to Saraswatiand gently kissed her inked hand.... -- Muse
How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored. -- Jean Ingelow
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake. -- Samuel Richardson
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face. -- George Crabbe
Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man. -- Saint Francis de Sales
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. -- Dylan Thomas
I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently. -- Robin Lim

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