It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared. . . . To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.
We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.
Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
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.
When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.
Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly. He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . . "There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things. . . adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!
[Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as he had to the Soviet Union - in order to receive their assistance, but he quietly worked to limit those forms of influence of which he did not approve (such as the harsh forms of land reform and the Great Leap Forward). Unfortunately, he was not always successful in fending off those forms of external advice that he didn't agree with.
It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
If you have time to chatter,Read books. If you have time to read,Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk,Sing songs and dance. If you have time to dance,Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot.
Meanwhile, NBC and I plan to continue our relationship with several new co-ventures including a new music show, while we also explore our ideas for me to create and host a new show of my own. I will not go quietly into the night. . . expect more great music and entertainment done in my own unique unmistakable and undeniable way. The Voice has given me all the altitude and incentive to do just that. Thanks for the memories and make way for many more!
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit andor die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself
Boast quietly, with decorum.
The highest happiness of man. . . is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.