A blanket could be used as a stool softener. Or it could also be used to soften a chair.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
...there was apparent in all a sort of anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness of some great, unfathomable mystery being accomplished... the most solemn mystery in the world was being accomplished. Evening passed, night came on. And th...
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
I don’t want to talk about it,” she said. Once again he was close. Too close. So damn close. “At all,” she added, hearing with some alarm that her voice had softened. Everything had softened, at just his proximity. “Ever,” she whispered, ...
...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows...
Life - with or without softener- is hard
Repentance is a softening of ones heart and a realigning of ones affections.
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
Jules told them, "I used to be a camper here myself," but she was confronted with a squeal of feedback, and even when she repeated her words, she saw that it didn't matter to them that she, a middled-aged woman with a sweater draped over her T-shirt ...
I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.
A brick could be used to soften resistance. Smash the opposition into a pulp!
If daughters couldn't soften a man, then nothing would.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other conditions rot it. The same sun shines upon mud that shines upon wax. It hardens the mud but softens the wax. The difference ...
