Top 535 Softly Quotes & Sayings

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

You can’t has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

God speaks as softly as he can and as loud as he has to.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping.

If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the 'Hallelujah Chorus'.

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.

The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.

I was always very softly spoken and kinda looked after myself.

Um. Charles thinks that his wolf has chosen me as his mate." "In less than one full day?" It did sound dumb when he said it that way. "Yes." she couldn't keep the uncertainty of her her voice, though, and it bothered Charles. He rolled to his feet and growled softly. "Charles also said I was an Omega wolf she told his father. That might have something to do with it as well." Silence lengthened and she began to think tha the cell phone might have dropped the connection. Then the Marrok laughed softly. "Oh his brother is going to tease him unmercifully about this.

I praise loudly and I blame softly.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.

On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

My hero is a guy named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt used to say, walk softly, talk softly but carry a big stick.

Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly, for though we have tread upon the surface of the moon, we have remained bigots and arrogant egotists. Walk softly, for history repeats its self with little provacation.

Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red.

Tread softly, Brathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.

I'm really loud. I can't sing softly.

No matter how softly you whisper a prayer, God hears and understands.

He who treads softly goes far.

Play the last measure very softly.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

Evil comes up softly like a flower.

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.

If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me Silent as a breath Only those who stay dead Shall remember death. And if you come I will be silent Nor speak harsh words to you. I will not ask you why, now. Or how, or what you do. We shall sit here, softly Beneath two different years And the rich earth between us Shall drink our tears.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

I'd love to be charming and softly spoken, but that's never going to happen.

Tread softly upon the earth because the faces of the unborn look up at you.

Sam did smile then, and said softly, "Hey Angel.

She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling.

When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

Fair and softly goes far.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

When you walk into a room,” he said softly, “the air changes.

To be a seer is to walk softly on the earth and dream.

The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

The open road still softly calls.

If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen