Best Quietly Thoughts
767 Quietly quotes by 558 unique authors
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Few things move as quietly as the future.
— Bernard Williams
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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
— Henry Walter Bates
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly,…
— Eddie Bernice Johnson
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The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no…
— Confucius
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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
— Aldous Huxley
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For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it, the more convinced…
— Freeman Dyson
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Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was…
— Mikhail Tal
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Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus…
— Charles Studd
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The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you…
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power…
— Robert Fortune
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The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to…
— Seth Godin
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No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or…
— Seth Godin
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I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.
— Franz Kafka
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It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
— Meryl Streep
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If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us…
— Rebecca Onie
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Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human…
— Wayne Muller
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It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great…
— Brenda Peterson
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If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one…
— Jonathan Messinger
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A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit…
— Joan Walsh Anglund
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Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Love doesn't need to be answered, It just quietly and freely gives.
— John de Ruiter
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