Quotes with quietly

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• The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish

  Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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• True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

  Erich Segal
  American writer (1937 - 2010)
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• We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

  John Osborne
  English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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• 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 Nixon
  American president (1913 - 1994)
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• We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

  Bill Simmons
  American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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• All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

  Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• imagination
• something
• offensive
• shouting
• drifting
• football

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