Better to wait quietly in their corner, they think, than…

“This time, there weren’t even any screams. The rest of the police decided to wait quietly for the arrival of someone who was being…

— Daniel O'Malley

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

— Laozi

Let all that I am, wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.

— Anonymous

“A room in Holmhurst was the last thing she'd come to - better to lie down in the wood under the beech leaces and…

— Barbara Pym

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

— Franz Kafka

When women talk, devil sits quietly in the corner, listens and learns.

— Anonymous

Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!

— Taylor Swift

“Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public…

— Albert Einstein

I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

— Bobbie Ann Mason

If I sit quietly in a corner waiting for the camera to roll, it doesn't mean that I am aloof and cut off from…

— Sridevi

“You know, they call third base the ‘hot corner.’ I think our third baseman might be the reason.”

— Rachel Hawthorne

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

— Claude Monet

I became stiff as a safety, and so I had to learn to move like a corner and think like a corner.

— Nnamdi Asomugha

“You’re distracting,” I said truthfully. “I won’t be. I promise,” Noah said. “I’ll get some crayons and draw quietly. Alone. In a corner.”

— Michelle Hodkin