#smooth

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#polished #rock #smooth #wisdom #wise

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets. ↗

— Rupert Brooke

#blankets #cool #kindliness #kiss #male

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#arrives #jerks #more #often #quickly

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless. ↗

— Joe Biden

#become #emotion #smooth #style #suspect

There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#after #especially #first #got #light

Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer. ↗

— George Smathers

#comes #downside #everything #helps #life

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. ↗

— Titus Livius

#difficulties #exercise #intelligence #many #may

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#away #could #edge #ended #enormous

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#captivated #deal #embodies #him #hollywood

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. ↗

— John Dryden

#betray #cannot #dangers #does #footing