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  • Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom -- Wayne Dyer
  • Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world. -- Tove Jansson
  • The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.' -- Confucius
  • Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma. -- Gautama Buddha
  • The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. -- Dion Boucicault
  • The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. -- Michael Faraday
  • True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. -- Erich Segal
  • The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. -- John F. Kennedy
  • Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest. -- Demetri Martin
  • The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. -- Michael Korda
  • We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. -- Brian Eno
  • 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. -- Janis Joplin
  • There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. -- Charles Kuralt
  • Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. -- John Muir
  • Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging. -- Guy Finley
  • Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • 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. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.' -- Rand Paul
  • Your body has something in the neighborhood of 40 trillion cells - quite a consulting committee. Call on it when you're confused or undecided. Relax quietly and ask your body what it has to say. -- Victoria Moran
  • Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent. -- Saint Ignatius
  • False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • 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. -- Isaac Barrow
  • A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together. -- Madeleine Albright
  • I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it. -- Guy Finley
  • Be quietly confident. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Boast quietly, with decorum. -- Mason Cooley
  • I want to live quietly. -- Mary MacLane
  • Men will not always die quietly. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • I can't do anything quietly anymore. -- Jimmy Wales
  • Do the truth quietly without display. -- Brennan Manning
  • Fall was slipping quietly into winter -- Robert Dugoni
  • I can be very self-destructive, but quietly. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Sit quietly and open up to spirit. -- Sharon Janis
  • Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly. -- Josh McDermitt
  • We're quietly aching for something to celebrate -- Mark Nepo
  • Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you. -- John Muir
  • Few things move as quietly as the future. -- Bernard Williams
  • I sing a beautiful song quietly in my heart. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • If you must make a noise, make it quietly. -- Oliver Hardy
  • Where you quietly know within, you have no choice. -- John de Ruiter
  • I live quietly at home among my family and friends. -- Antonio Tabucchi
  • I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly. -- Catherine the Great
  • He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. -- Ovid
  • I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money. -- Carine Roitfeld
  • Love comes quietly... / but you know when it is there... -- Joan Walsh Anglund
  • Marriage, she said quietly, is the most expensive ticket to nowhere -- Aryn Kyle
  • Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly. -- Andrew Forrest
  • Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are. -- Aberjhani
  • Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere -- Aryn Kyle
  • Your strength is how calmly, quietly and peacefully you face life. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  • When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured? -- Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart. -- Goswami Kriyananda
  • Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself. -- Matsuo Basho
  • Love doesn't need to be answered, It just quietly and freely gives. -- John de Ruiter
  • Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. -- Orson Welles
  • Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another. -- William Saroyan
  • As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. -- John Green
  • Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets. -- Harvey Milk
  • Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them. -- Vernon Howard
  • Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away. -- Tom Brokaw
  • I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain. -- Sean Connery
  • If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
  • I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy. -- Kay Ryan
  • Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living. -- Evinda Lepins
  • The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. -- Mark Nepo
  • Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude. -- Brenda Ueland
  • I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant. -- Ilona Andrews
  • My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on. -- Lance Loud
  • Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. -- John Muir
  • The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. -- Alice Walker
  • Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? -- Spike Milligan
  • Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord. -- Elizabeth George
  • It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look. -- Jacqueline Kelly
  • If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement. -- Neill F. Marriott
  • Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? -- Chief Powhatan
  • One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth! -- Gloria Steinem
  • [To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly. -- Queen Elizabeth II
  • Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber. -- Greg Gutfeld
  • It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it. -- Meryl Streep
  • Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door. -- Terry Goodkind
  • Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake. -- Mason Cooley
  • Does not heed to the darkWith its shimmering light,Moon quietly bathes the ocean -- Somali K Chakrabarti
  • One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly? -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs. -- Melina Marchetta
  • When you put Listerine in your mouth, it hurts. Germs do not go quietly. -- Mitch Hedberg
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  • But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all? -- Libba Bray
  • Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today. -- Jim Lee
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  • He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer. -- William Faulkner
  • The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl. -- Lauren Graham
  • Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room. -- Blaise Pascal
  • All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. -- Blaise Pascal
  • When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss. -- Banksy
  • There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
  • Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. -- James Baker
  • An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly. -- Lauren Oliver
  • My idea of a vacation is to rest quietly in the shade of a blond. -- Dick Powell
  • All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • You remembered, he said quietly.Lowering the bow, Scarlet kept her eyes on himI remembered. -- Chelsea Fine
  • Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God. -- Jane Frances de Chantal
  • Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. -- Steven Herrick
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