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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. -- Brian Eno
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. -- Marcus Aurelius
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. -- Bill Bruford
Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing. -- Jane Pauley
My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life. -- James Mercer
I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up. -- William H. McRaven
There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's head. -- Stephenie Meyer
Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting. -- Lucy Liu
Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me. -- John Hurt
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently. -- Garth Ennis
When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters. -- Kristin Armstrong
As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter... With my friends, I was still an extrovert. -- John Mulaney
In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner. -- Vanessa Mae
I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night. -- Lorde
It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing. -- Dave Matthews
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. -- Henry Rollins
Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting. -- Jonathan Cain
I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas. -- John Oliver
Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions. -- April Gornik
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan. -- Julian Barnes
Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options. -- Sharon Salzberg
It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me. -- Laura Marling
I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone. -- Colin Farrell
In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos. -- Brian Greene
I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do with the fact that writing takes up a lot of space in your head. My ideal is to go back to when I was a child. My life is quieter than it used to be. More and more I don't really want to talk to people. I'd make a good nun, actually. -- Kate Atkinson
I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
The quieter we become, the more we can hear. -- Rumi
My goal is to get quieter as I get older. -- Kid Rock
I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter. -- Bill Murray
The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear... -- Ram Dass
I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise. -- Kelly Ripa
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. -- John Ruskin
The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised. -- James Russell Lowell
The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs. -- Kathryn Bigelow
Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through. -- Elie Tahari
What was going on inside of me became louder because everything around me became quieter. -- Dani Shapiro
The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question. -- David Letterman
...their voices are quieter than the other groups around them, but their body language speaks volumes. -- Sandy Hall
Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die -- Dave Matthews
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. -- C. S. Lewis
You see, most people play louder to get someone's attention, but getting quieter can stop a bull from charging. -- Victor L. Wooten
The quieter the mind, the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. -- Meister Eckhart
Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie. -- Jodi Picoult
The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas head. -- Stephenie Meyer
I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [...] maybe it's better. -- Heather Anastasiu
I'm just going to go to schools and give inspirational speeches about our bodies. I'll just wear flowing dresses and talk way quieter than I can. -- Jen Kirkman
Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were. -- J.R. Ward
Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things. -- Jane Goodall
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract. -- Bruce Jackson
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead. -- Mark Twain
What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all. -- Catherynne M. Valente
I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something. -- J Tillman
Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch. -- Jillian Lauren
It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need stronger knowledge, more experience and flair. -- Van Day Truex
What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square ... It's a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It's just a few Jews walking around going, "sup?" -- Jon Stewart
I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour. -- Michael Kenna
Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you -- Judith Weir
The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, .. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience. -- Craig Detweiler
Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
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Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused. -- Lizzy Caplan
Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth. -- Anna Torv
The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could. -- Nicholas Sparks
Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. We've raised the bar and you can't really step back. -- Butch Vig
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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