I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

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.

Music exalts each joy allays each grief expels diseases softens every pain subdues the rage of poison and the plague.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.

Four hours of prosthetics every morning the jowls and the nose and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day and you're still petrified of so many things such as can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels even though he had the softened California consonants.

I think my mom put it best. She said 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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.

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.

Cruelty is softened by fear not pity.

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.

No advance in wealth no softening of manners no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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.

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.

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end locked in your head alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

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.