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  • Quell rebellion before it spreads. -- Vespasian
  • The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell"well she never kissed me like that"I should have volunteered to take your place in the first Games. Protected her then"I guess it's Katniss' problem. Who to choose"Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without. -- Suzanne Collins
  • What passions cannot music raise or quell? -- John Dryden
  • One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire. -- Molly Antopol
  • Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. -- Karl Marx
  • Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded. -- Calamity Jane
  • When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks. -- Nathan Wolfe
  • I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. -- Thomas Francis Meagher
  • It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
  • What passion cannot music raise and quell! -- John Dryden
  • [It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it. -- George Eliot
  • Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something. -- Ben Jonson
  • No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell! -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree. -- Walter Scott
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