#gently

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#call #chicago #city #desire #i

I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#done #get #had #i #meant

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#believe #diligently #exists #first #god

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

— Yuan Shikai

#china #diligently #face #head #japan

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

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results. ↗

— Harry Browne

#compassionate #directed #intelligently #mind #need

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#claims #diligently #elizabeth #enough #explaining

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#am #avoid #bubbles #hard #hat

We do not kiss. We do nothing but hold on and breathe, but still I know. I cannot go gently now. Not even for the sake of my parents, my family. Not even for Xander. ↗

— Ally Condie

#know #family

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