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The Angels have been killing Mussina softly.

- Joe Buck
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I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

- Roy Orbison

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

- Theodore Roosevelt

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he`d tell us very softly, "I don`t want to hear those words."

- Charles Moore

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

- Pope John XXIII

He`s quite a softly spoken and unassertive man who changes over the course of the film, but what I liked about it was that he doesn`t become a hero, but perhaps he becomes a fuller person, stronger; he emerges from himself,

- Harry Potter

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

- Alan Cook

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

- Amy Wroblewski

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

- Andy Hurwitz

We`ve learned from Ireland (where a similar smoking ban was implemented in March 2004) that the best way to begin these changes is to have a strong public presence. From next Sunday, we will be popping into bars and clubs and making sure that managers are coping. But we won`t be slapping fines on anyone without giving them an adequate warning, and we`re not really interested in following smokers home. We`re planning a very `softly softly` approach, because you can`t change a nation`s culture overnight. We just want to ensure the public know exactly what`s expected.

- Arthur Adler

But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

- William Butler Yeats

I praise loudly, I blame softly

- Catherine the Great

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

- John Dryden