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  • Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

  • Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

  • In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

    Wall   Book   People  
    Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965
  • Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

    Smile   Dog   Children  
  • To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “1914-1919”
  • I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing... I like to think before I speak (softly).

    "Susan Cain: Quiet revolutionary". Speaker profile at TED.com, February 2012.
  • [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

  • People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

    Book   People   Dimes  
    Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965
  • She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

    Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)
  • But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

    Love   Life   Dream  
    "HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven" l. 7 (1899)
  • I really believe that actually Ahmadinejad undermines Iran far more than he enhances Iran's status. And I think we have to go back to what FDR said, you know, speak softly and carry a big stick. I think Iran under Ahmadinejad, they speak loudly and carry a small stick.

  • 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.

    Speech at Chicago, 3 April 1903, in 'New York Times' 4 April 1903
  • Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.

    Farewell   Moon   Simple  
  • In the dime stores and bus stations
 People talk of situations
 Read books, repeat quotations
 Draw conclusions on the wall
 Some speak of the future
 My love she speaks softly
 She knows there’s no success like failure
 And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

    Zero   Wall   Book  
    Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)
  • I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to sleep, and nursed me back to health, and haven't asked for anything in return. The animals are on the other side of the fence: monsters wearing uniforms. They speak softly, and tell lies, and smile as they're slitting your throat.

    Rip   Lying   Sleep  
    Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.13, Harper Collins
  • 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.

    Mars   May   Speak  
  • Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

    Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK
  • If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

    Power   Men   Listening  
  • Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

  • There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.

  • Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

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

    Letter to Henry L. Sprague, 26 Jan. 1900
  • Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

    Love You   Pride   World  
  • To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.146, Cornell University Press
  • the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

    Beauty   Voice   Soul  
  • We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.

    Voice   Mountain   Sparks  
    "Except the Lord Build the House …" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. June 1971.
  • We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

    "Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 12, 1972.
  • In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are kind, A tongue that will speak softly, A mind full of wisdom, A heart that understands.

    Strong   Heart   Eye  
  • Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.

  • It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

    Voice   Speak   Twigs  
    " Fareed Zakaria GPS", www.cnn.com. July 27, 2014.
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