it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.
The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.
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.
It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?
Love doesn't need to be answered, It just quietly and freely gives.
There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of life are allowed to seep, quietly and deeply, into the marrow of the soul. These outwardly flat periods, when enduring well may not seem very purposeful,, are probably the times when needed attitudinal alignments are quietly occurring.
Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.
Love comes quietly. . . but you know when it is there because suddenly. . . you are not alone anymore. . . and there is no sadness in you.
I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing. " "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.
But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?
She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.
I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.
The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.