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Quotes About Quietly

We disappear as stars do, soundless, without a trace.
~ Charles Wright
Criminals, because they're plagued with guilt, often will surrender and go quietly. Outlaws, because they're pure, never will.
~ Tom Robbins
Make no mistake, gentlemen, these men are Islamic radicals. They consider it a blessing to die for their cause. Let's accommodate them. Number-one priority is the hostages. We want to get in and get out without detection if possible, so when you're accommodating them, do it as quietly as possible.
~ Christine Feehan
But Benedict wished to suffer the world's wrongs rather than its praises, and to be worn out by labors for God rather than flattered by worldly praise. So he quietly slipped away...
~ Terrence G. Kardong
The last hour waiting patiently on a tray for her somewhere in the future. The spoon slipping quietly into the beautiful soup.
~ Laura Kasischke
And finally, most crucially: preventing the spread of un-American views by quietly removing children from un-American environments—the definition of which was ever expanding:
~ Celeste Ng
For me, poetry is the unexpected utterance of the soul. It is where the soul touches the everyday. It is less about words and more about the awakening the sense of aliveness we carry within us from birth. To walk quietly till the miracle in everything is poetry. whether we write it down or not.
~ Oprah Winfrey
For me, poetry is the unexpected utterance of the soul. It is where the soul touches the everyday. It is less about words and more about awakening the sense of aliveness we carry within us from birth. To walk quietly till the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Boys and girls, you asked good questions, and you asked them nicely and quietly, so I'm putting a cookie token in our cookie jar to help us earn our cookie party.
~ Laurie Frankel
Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.
~ Daniel Webster
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.
~ Sloane Crosley
Love was not a bridesmaid of despair; love did not have to hurt. Armed with such potent knowledge, she returned quietly to the life she had abandoned.
~ Pat Conroy
Otherwise, he'd have found the ruin empty, and then, somehow, very quietly and almost naturally, he would have died.
~ William Gibson
Another vast omission is my failure to have quietly collapsed the Soviet Union and swept the rubble offstage when nobody was looking.
~ William Gibson
Fortune turns like a wheel. One man it lifts, another it sets down! Does not the old man grieve over all he has lost?" "Who can tell? He lives quietly and peacefully, and works well.
~ William J. Bennett
She's no-one special. England's full of wounded people. Quietly choking. Shrieking softly so the neighbours won't hear. You must have seen them. You've probably passed them. You've certainly stepped on them. Too many people have had enough. It's nothing new.
~ Helen Zahavi
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
~ Henry Walter Bates
Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, he was living so calmly and quietly. He felt that sooner or later he would have to re-enter that whirlpool of life, with its embarrassments and affairs to be straightened out, its accounts with stewards, quarrels, and intrigues, its ties, society,
~ Leo Tolstoy
I didn't know quite what fornicating was, but I had read about it in Deuteronomy, and I knew it was a sin. But why was it so noisy? Most sins you did quietly so as not to get caught.
~ Jeanette Winterson
When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state.
~ David Foster Wallace
I have to listen to my heart," Helen said quietly. That elicited a bitter scrape of laughter, "The downfall of every woman since Eve has begun with those exact words.
~ Lisa Kleypas
SOME DAYS YOU WAKE AND IMMEDIATELY START TO WORRY. NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IS WRONG, IT¹S JUST THE SUSPICION THAT FORCES ARE ALIGNING QUIETLY AND THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.
~ Jenny Holzer
I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.
~ Sean Connery
I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymously.
~ David Wojnarowicz