Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
~By Agatha Christie ~
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
~By Chief Joseph ~
One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
~By Mel Brooks ~
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
~By Samuel Butler ~
In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.
~By Leland Stanford ~
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
~By Albert Camus ~
I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
Anything for a quiet life.
~By Thomas Middleton ~
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
~By Armand Assante ~
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.
~By Marie Windsor ~
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
~By George A. Smith ~
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
~By Christian Slater ~
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
~By Black Kettle ~
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
~By Judith Martin ~
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!
~By Michael McKean ~
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
~By Albert Einstein ~
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
~By Philip Gibbs ~
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
~By Guillermo del Toro ~
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.
~By Dominic Monaghan ~
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
~By William Powell ~
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
~By Johnny Rotten ~
When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
~By Zach Wamp ~
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
~By Chief Joseph ~
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
~By Beverly Sills ~
My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
~By John Turturro ~
I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.
~By Ron Darling ~
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
~By Billy Joel ~
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
~By John Donne ~
Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
~By LaToya London ~
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
~By Bill Watterson ~
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.
~By John Hart ~
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
~By Saint Augustine ~
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
~By Dan Hicks ~
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
~By Lee Krasner ~
I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.
~By Christopher Walken ~
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
~By Carly Simon ~
Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.
~By Richard Chamberlain ~
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
~By John W. Gardner ~
I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
~By Jack Whittaker ~
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
~By Dion Boucicault ~
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
~By George Byron ~
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.
~By Ron Chernow ~
I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
~By Clea Duvall ~
They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
~By James Herriot ~
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.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
~By James Baker ~
If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.
~By Martina Navratilova ~
Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.
~By Demetri Martin ~
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
~By Ali MacGraw ~
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.
~By David R. Brower ~
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
~By Earl Warren ~
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
~By Molly Ivins ~
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
~By John Lindsay ~
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
~By Andy Grove ~
It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.
~By Eva Marie Saint ~
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
~By Janis Joplin ~
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
~By Edmund Waller ~
But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
~By Greg Kinnear ~
It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
~By Tony Snow ~
The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
~By Ben E. King ~
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
~By Anaxagoras ~
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
~By Robert Service ~
In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.
~By Ruth Park ~
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
~By Amelia Barr ~
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
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