#gently

I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided. ↗

— Ray Harryhausen

#character #could #disc #flying #guided

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

#breathe #darling #even #firing #gently

Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#men #primarily #serve #them #train

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#answered #best #creeds #dark #fears

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

#archimedes #brain #did #direction #door

China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan. ↗

— Yuan Shikai

#china #diligently #face #head #japan

Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere. ↗

— Emma Smith

#life #rapid #river #simile #sweep

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ↗

— Edward Cocker

#avidly #carefully #intelligently #into #learn

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#any #bad #chronicle #day #days

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#between #both #day #either #gently