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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.Soft-- Brent Weeks
Used gently, and without the touch of pain.
I pressed and I prayed. It was only right that pressing went with prayer. That and being sorry. Every wrinkle was a patch of sorry to be smoothed and flattened.
It's true for you to soften within, to let your heart open, to let your heart soften.
Try a little tenderness ...
The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without.
With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks!
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
I had to harden all of my soft edges if I was going to survive my new life as a tasty Nutella unicorn,
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.
rubbing the ointment into the creases of his knuckles, massaging
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
i am a brutally soft woman.
Them up and trying to oil them, sand them, make them into something they could never be again - how
There is no gentle here.
It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room ...
Being both soft and strong>strongstrong> is a combination very few have mastered.
Gentle. Which people see as weak.
Nothing beats a really rough massage. I really hate a man who goes all limp when he's doing a massage. Who needs a soft massage? Just get in there and rub me hard or don't bother.
Disturbing crunch as
Skin is punctured for access
Sweet, warm, filling blood
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.
Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
There is no place here for softness. Let folk in too close and you offer them up as weapons for your own destruction.
Soft and faire goes farre.
Marriage is making you soft."
"Actually, it's making me hard.
For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth
and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces
Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!
Soft as butter they can be, and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots.
smeared a balm over the end of it.
Softness was for kittens, pillows and pretty cashmere sweaters. Sex needed to be hard, hot and oh-so-rough around the edges.
Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
A hard head makes a soft ass.
When I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.
You understand ... just what the Taoists mean when they say that soft is stronger than hard.
Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain.
The power of gentleness is irresistible.
You break me the hardest,
make me the strongest, and keep me
the softest.
Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
One the stuff hits the fan ... swirl a pair of (Chinese) stress balls.
Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle.
A little impatience (carefully applied and infused with
Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind
Tenderness was not yet dust.
Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.
He would not become soft. It was exhaustion he wanted - it helped him write. He needed each of his words to appreciate the weight they bore. He felt like he was lifting them and then letting them drop to the end of his finge
Look what pressure(cooker) does to Rice. It makes the hard and tough rice go soft.
Make gentle the life of this world.
If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.
Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.
Salt a slug shame a here, and they shrink right up.
Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.
I like the way the word feels against my mouth - soft, unassuming, even soothing.
Battle is a hard business, sister. Soft training will make for soft soldiers, who will in turn become soft corpses.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
There is something softer than the water: The touch of the love!
Much handled things are always soft(27).
In order to have a good hand, it must be light, gentle, and firm.
I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth...
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.
I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded
In fact, I'm softer than I've ever been, including that unfortunate semester in high school when I simultaneously discovered Krispy Kreme and pot,
They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness.
Under softest touch hides treacherous claws.
I've always been a little soft. I like to eat.
the killing blow is sometimes the softest
There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.
When it comes to the skin, there are two possible ways to tighten it up: surgery, or develop the muscle underneath! It is like blowing up a balloon underneath some wrinkly sheets. It eventually pulls them tight!
I ain't no soft girl. I don't know no soft words.
Soft, pretty things don't belong in a dead zone.
I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head.
Simple, like uncarved wood.
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
smooth and fat as possible,
A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
Tex shrink-wrapped a dealer's BMW. Wrapped the whole
thing in plastic wrap and then used a portable blow drier on it
to tighten the plastic. Word
has it, it was several layers deep.
I might read books and paint pictures but I'm not soft
I am tough but I have a soft side.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.
Gentle flexibility
is the way of the humble master
If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.
Be soft enough not to break; be kind enough to not get angry.
I don't talk soft, that's that other dude.
Surface my wife's most vicious
I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing.
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.
What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.