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  • I am a quiet man who grows through adversity. -- Jose Maria Aznar
  • Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. -- Iain Duncan Smith
  • He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words... -- David Beckham
  • When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake. -- Francine Mathews
  • I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention. -- Christian Bale
  • I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on. -- Marie Windsor
  • I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will. -- Wendell Berry
  • The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night. -- Thomas Browne
  • Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. -- Iris Murdoch
  • Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet. -- William Penn
  • All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. -- Blaise Pascal
  • As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings. -- Om Puri
  • Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power. -- H. Emilie Cady
  • Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there. -- F. Murray Abraham
  • [The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought. -- Beryl Markham
  • You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115 -- Maria V. Snyder
  • My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life"." -- Pat Conroy
  • You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet.Oh real funny. Tease the blind man. ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115 -- Maria V. Snyder
  • Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety. -- Richard Whately
  • You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do. -- Bryce Wilson
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  • The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences. -- Confucius
  • On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free man. -- Jim Davidson
  • 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. -- Malcolm de Chazal
  • Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind. -- Gautama Buddha
  • A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • [Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. -- Michael Moore
  • I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away. -- Larry McMurtry
  • A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back -- Nicholas Sparks
  • But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes. -- Michel de Montaigne
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