Best Quietly Wisdom
767 Quietly quotes by 558 unique authors
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I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.
— Maya Angelou
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Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.
— Brenda Ueland
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Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed—an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic…
— Jacob Needleman
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Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.
— David Richo
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The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
— Blaise Pascal
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Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.
— Charles Spurgeon
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What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved)…
— John Bertram Phillips
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The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never…
— W.C. Fields
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To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...
— Theodore Roethke
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You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions…
— Frances Parkinson Keyes
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Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are…
— James Lovelock
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
— Michael Faraday
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Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.
— Marian McPartland
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I want to live quietly.
— Mary MacLane
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But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
— Black Kettle
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly…
— Earl Blumenauer
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without…
— Reverend Malcolm Boyd
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I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
— Catherine the Great
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The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
— Lauren Graham
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was…
— Madeleine Stowe
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But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did…
— Earl Browder
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You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the…
— Samuel Johnson
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