Quotes 61 till 80 of 95.
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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage -
Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
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Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage.
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
bij Boswell -
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Second State of the Union address (1862) -
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
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The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
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