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You go, you find it, take a stick, tap it to determine the size, and then you dig it up, and then you pick it up gently and take it out. – Bex Wright/CNN	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[Allantoin's] keratolytic action helps to gently exfoliate skin and prepare it for optimal absorption of moisturizing agents. – Rebecca Marcus	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You can simply practice box squats by getting up and sitting back down gently then popping right back up again and repeating that motion over and over. – Dana Santas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Your love is like the trees gently blowing through my mind. You heart is streamed with leaves delicate as the seasons. Your soul is as the memory of all that heaven divulges. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by heatherthornhill 2 years ago
I love you like the gently voice that guides you to the new land of reality and my heart trembles when you take your final step towards your ascension, share my ascension my love and this will lift you to your highest self. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by heatherthornhill 2 years ago
So I kind of got down on my hands and knees and I real gently brushed a little bit of sand back and then -- lo and behold, there's an egg, there's one hatching, we watched several of the turtles hatch in front of our eyes. – Pamela Plotkin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The movie talks about how Fire Island has been this place where gay men have historically gone to feel safe, and Fire Island asks what you do when you feel unsafe there, among your' own kind,' i like that the movie deals with these subjects very gently. It's not really angry. It's not really accusatory. But it's just sort of showing how it is and how we manage to love Fire Island anyway. – Jane Austen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The key to the process is to design the pressure release rate not to stress the dough, which likes to expand gently, we mainly studied how dough behaves with and without yeast -- how the softness changes with leavening( rising), and how the dough responds to a temperature program during baking. – Di Maio	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We need those who can violently shake the world in a gentle way, not those who gently shake it in a violent way. – Goa Kerle	added by Goa_ 2 years ago
Go to Walmart and get you a foaming hand soap bottle, you’re going to fill it a fourth of the way full of Dawn dish soap, add water, top it off with alcohol. Gently mix it. – Kristen Donathan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Come, Autumn Roll your red-gold wave Gently Across the good earth. – Laura Jaworski	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Just be careful, as your skin in that area will likely be sensitive and topical acne treatments can make this more irritated and even worse. FOGGY GLASSES Since face masks trap the breath and foster moist, humid environments, glasses wearersmay have noticed that wearing a face mask can cause your lenses to fog. In a 2011 study from the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, researchers advised washing the glasses with soapy water immediately before wearing a face mask. Face masks trap the breath and foster humidity so glasses wearers may have noticed that wearing a face mask can cause the lenses to fog. (iStock) After shaking off any excess water, let the spectacles air dry or gently dry off the lenses with a soft tissue before putting them back on. Now the spectacle lenses should not mist up when the face mask is worn, they wrote. Glasses fog because humidity can escape the mask and move upward, coming into contact with the lenses and causing them to fog. Placing a tissue under the top of your face mask can also help absorb some of the droplets, leading to clear lenses. Wearing a mask that can form to the bridge of your nose one with wire, for instance can help prevent the warm air from your mouth from reaching your lenses. DRY, CRACKED HANDS FROM FREQUENT WASHING Next, frequent hand washing, especially during the ongoing pandemic, can lead to skin feeling dry, irritatedor cracked. Preventing rough skin can be as simple as switching to a fragrance-free hand soap, which may contain fewer irritants. But Jaber also recommends carrying hand moisturizer for use after washing and drying your hands, suggesting a cream or an ointment rather than a lotion, as lotions are usually thinner and often contain alcohol. Experts advise carrying hand moisturizer for use after washing and drying your hands. (iStock) Lotions can be great, but creams or ointments are thicker. Vaseline is an ointment, and it really locks things in. – Samer Jaber	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Children need role models... who can gently guide them to nature with excitement, optimism and an attitude of a lifelong learner. – Miyuki Maruping	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Young visitors to the museum ask me, “What was it like to live during the civil rights struggle?” I gently tell them that we are living during the civil rights struggle. -David Pilgrim – David Pilgrim	added by anonymous 5 years ago
What I am about to say, I intend to say gently and constructively. And that is this. We need to do more. We need to do more. By we, I mean the Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio Congress. We have completed almost 25 % of the time allotted to this current Congress and what have we done other than nominations, we have done nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. – John Kennedy	Found on CNN 5 years ago
When I hear a certain song playing in the background, I think of you and a vision of your face, pervades my soul. When the second song plays, your sweet fragrance fills the air around me. The third song and her gentle hand caressing my face tingles my body covered with goosebumps. At the fourth song, I gently glide to the radio and turn it off. There’s no sense roaming in the darkened marred past. – RJ Intindola	added by RJ Intindola 5 years ago
I think I just gently played with a hornet. – Chrissy Teigen	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There is no need to use anything other than water to wash lettuce, washing it gently with water is as effective as using produce cleansers. – Jeff Farber	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Here’s what everybody’s been trying to tell you today. And I say this gently. Your user agreement sucks, the purpose of that user agreement is to cover Facebook’s rear-end. It’s not to inform Facebook’s users about their rights. – John Kennedy	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Life is a mysterious adventure full of unexpected happenings and captivating episodes with intriguing revelations. We just have to squeeze it gently and enjoy each drop. That is philosophy. (( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" ) – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 8 years ago
It was a little bizarre, at first, playing a mother of that age, you always hope, as an actress, that you can go into [ playing someone that age ] gently, first as a mother to a baby, then to a toddler. Only for Lifetime Lesbian Vampire Movie and for James Franco ' would I play a mother of this age. – Tori Spelling	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The market needs to be coddled and gently eased into a slightly higher interest-rate environment, and that appears to be what San Francisco Fed is doing, rates need to normalize and San Francisco Fed needs to give San Francisco Fed room to lower again in the event of another financial crisis. – Tim Ghriskey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I call it paradoxical, to put it gently, that the pope said that, when he lives behind walls that are about 40 feet high and 40 feet across, that comment hurt his credibility with my parishioners. – William Paul	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Even in a gently rising rate environment, we can't expect much in the way of (price-to-earnings) market expansion. – Leo Grohowski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

You go, you find it, take a stick, tap it to determine the size, and then you dig it up, and then you pick it up gently and take it out.

– Bex Wright/CNN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[Allantoin's] keratolytic action helps to gently exfoliate skin and prepare it for optimal absorption of moisturizing agents.

– Rebecca Marcus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can simply practice box squats by getting up and sitting back down gently then popping right back up again and repeating that motion over and over.

– Dana Santas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your love is like the trees gently blowing through my mind. You heart is streamed with leaves delicate as the seasons. Your soul is as the memory of all that heaven divulges.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
2 years ago

I love you like the gently voice that guides you to the new land of reality and my heart trembles when you take your final step towards your ascension, share my ascension my love and this will lift you to your highest self.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
2 years ago

So I kind of got down on my hands and knees and I real gently brushed a little bit of sand back and then -- lo and behold, there's an egg, there's one hatching, we watched several of the turtles hatch in front of our eyes.

– Pamela Plotkin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The movie talks about how Fire Island has been this place where gay men have historically gone to feel safe, and Fire Island asks what you do when you feel unsafe there, among your' own kind,' i like that the movie deals with these subjects very gently. It's not really angry. It's not really accusatory. But it's just sort of showing how it is and how we manage to love Fire Island anyway.

– Jane Austen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The key to the process is to design the pressure release rate not to stress the dough, which likes to expand gently, we mainly studied how dough behaves with and without yeast -- how the softness changes with leavening( rising), and how the dough responds to a temperature program during baking.

– Di Maio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need those who can violently shake the world in a gentle way, not those who gently shake it in a violent way.

– Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

Go to Walmart and get you a foaming hand soap bottle, you’re going to fill it a fourth of the way full of Dawn dish soap, add water, top it off with alcohol. Gently mix it.

– Kristen Donathan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Come, Autumn Roll your red-gold wave Gently Across the good earth.

– Laura Jaworski

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Just be careful, as your skin in that area will likely be sensitive and topical acne treatments can make this more irritated and even worse. FOGGY GLASSES Since face masks trap the breath and foster moist, humid environments, glasses wearersmay have noticed that wearing a face mask can cause your lenses to fog. In a 2011 study from the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, researchers advised washing the glasses with soapy water immediately before wearing a face mask. Face masks trap the breath and foster humidity so glasses wearers may have noticed that wearing a face mask can cause the lenses to fog. (iStock) After shaking off any excess water, let the spectacles air dry or gently dry off the lenses with a soft tissue before putting them back on. Now the spectacle lenses should not mist up when the face mask is worn, they wrote. Glasses fog because humidity can escape the mask and move upward, coming into contact with the lenses and causing them to fog. Placing a tissue under the top of your face mask can also help absorb some of the droplets, leading to clear lenses. Wearing a mask that can form to the bridge of your nose one with wire, for instance can help prevent the warm air from your mouth from reaching your lenses. DRY, CRACKED HANDS FROM FREQUENT WASHING Next, frequent hand washing, especially during the ongoing pandemic, can lead to skin feeling dry, irritatedor cracked. Preventing rough skin can be as simple as switching to a fragrance-free hand soap, which may contain fewer irritants. But Jaber also recommends carrying hand moisturizer for use after washing and drying your hands, suggesting a cream or an ointment rather than a lotion, as lotions are usually thinner and often contain alcohol. Experts advise carrying hand moisturizer for use after washing and drying your hands. (iStock) Lotions can be great, but creams or ointments are thicker. Vaseline is an ointment, and it really locks things in.

– Samer Jaber

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Children need role models... who can gently guide them to nature with excitement, optimism and an attitude of a lifelong learner.

– Miyuki Maruping

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Young visitors to the museum ask me, “What was it like to live during the civil rights struggle?” I gently tell them that we are living during the civil rights struggle. -David Pilgrim

– David Pilgrim

added by anonymous
5 years ago

What I am about to say, I intend to say gently and constructively. And that is this. We need to do more. We need to do more. By we, I mean the Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio Congress. We have completed almost 25 % of the time allotted to this current Congress and what have we done other than nominations, we have done nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

– John Kennedy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When I hear a certain song playing in the background, I think of you and a vision of your face, pervades my soul. When the second song plays, your sweet fragrance fills the air around me. The third song and her gentle hand caressing my face tingles my body covered with goosebumps. At the fourth song, I gently glide to the radio and turn it off. There’s no sense roaming in the darkened marred past.

– RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
5 years ago

I think I just gently played with a hornet.

– Chrissy Teigen

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There is no need to use anything other than water to wash lettuce, washing it gently with water is as effective as using produce cleansers.

– Jeff Farber

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Here’s what everybody’s been trying to tell you today. And I say this gently. Your user agreement sucks, the purpose of that user agreement is to cover Facebook’s rear-end. It’s not to inform Facebook’s users about their rights.

– John Kennedy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Life is a mysterious adventure full of unexpected happenings and captivating episodes with intriguing revelations. We just have to squeeze it gently and enjoy each drop. That is philosophy. (( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

It was a little bizarre, at first, playing a mother of that age, you always hope, as an actress, that you can go into [ playing someone that age ] gently, first as a mother to a baby, then to a toddler. Only for Lifetime Lesbian Vampire Movie and for James Franco ' would I play a mother of this age.

– Tori Spelling

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The market needs to be coddled and gently eased into a slightly higher interest-rate environment, and that appears to be what San Francisco Fed is doing, rates need to normalize and San Francisco Fed needs to give San Francisco Fed room to lower again in the event of another financial crisis.

– Tim Ghriskey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I call it paradoxical, to put it gently, that the pope said that, when he lives behind walls that are about 40 feet high and 40 feet across, that comment hurt his credibility with my parishioners.

– William Paul

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Even in a gently rising rate environment, we can't expect much in the way of (price-to-earnings) market expansion.

– Leo Grohowski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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