Quotes About Quietly

I think I was raised by a very humble mother, who, if anything, is probably over skeptical. She has that sense of everything being a bonus: like, you have your lot, and anything else is on top. She's quietly proud, and quietly humble.

Spring's imminence was a comfort akin to a favourite piece of music playing quietly in the background, all of the time.

I am human," the large beast said quietly.

A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.

gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I

Adam went quietly on with his breakfast.  Killing a few snakes in a morning was no new experience to him.

Like most presidents, Lincoln was forever being given dramatic compositions by men in high positions with the assurance that his signature at the foot of the paper, his nod of approval to the man who had written it, would solve everything and enable him to sleep quietly of nights.

Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.

Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause? I'd much rather live quietly for one.

I did have regrets these past six months," he told me quietly. "I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you  .  .  .

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.

Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

It is snowing. The flakes stream into the torchlight like a crowd flowing across a bridge, each one unknowably different, all exactly the same. But look up and the snow piles out of the dark like a weightless waterfall, tumbling from a black nowhere to your face. Snow at night is like the roof falling in, quietly.

She really did an excellent job of making it seem perfectly ludicrous for me to be living quietly in my own home instead of keeping close tabs on the latest news from international wizarding circles.

Observing Ben's struggle, Hi scratched his chin. Glanced at me. Shrugged. Then he quietly slipped around behind Ben. And, without ceremony, kicked him in the ass. Hard

You people did a good thing." "That's what we do," Nate said quietly.

When the poor ghosts have gone, what remains are ordinary obligations and ordinary interests. One can live quietly and try to do tiny good things and harm no one.

Can one change oneself? I doubt it. Or if there is any change it must be measured as the millionth part of a millimetre. When the poor ghosts have gone, what remains are ordinary obligations and ordinary interests. One can live quietly and try to do tiny good things and harm to no one. I cannot think of any tiny good things to do at the moment, but perhaps I shall think of one tomorrow.

Are you truly a robot? Truly, sir, said Daneel. Pelorat's face seemed to shine with joy. He said, There are references to a robot named Daneel in the old legends. Are you named in his honor? I am that robot, said Daneel. It is not a legend. Oh no, said Pelorat. If you are that robot, you would have to be thousands of years old. Twenty thousand, said Daneel quietly.

"Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly." "I want to be a soldier. A hero." "You'll grow out of it."

Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.

you are good but you are too emotional the way to whip life is to quietly frame the agony,study it and put it to sleep in the abstract. is there anything less abstract than dying everyday and on the last day?