As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron
Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
Paula Abdul
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'
Paul Walker
I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.
Silvio Berlusconi
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.
Willie Aames
The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
Bryant H. McGill
The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now.
Ralph Merkle
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Donal Henahan
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver
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