“ Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 927
“ All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. ”
- Zen Saying- Copy
- 429
“ Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time. ”
- Brenda Ueland- Copy
- 1.3K
“ We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ”
- Ray Bradbury- Copy
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“ Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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“ He's not going to go out quietly. He's going to rage against the darkness. ”
- Martin Sheen- Copy
- 1.8K
“ If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or "our" country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. ”
- Brenda Ueland- Copy
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“ All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
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“ There is in some people a quietly unassuming pride that no misfortune can humble, and it goes by the name of humility. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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“ A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get. ”
- William Graham Sumner- Copy
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“ Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
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“ In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 2.8K
“ One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. ”
- Daniel Berrigan- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own. ”
- Michael Korda- Copy
- 1.5K
“ 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 particular reference to our nature. ”
- Malcolm Boyd- Copy
- 2.4K
“ As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills. ”
- William Drummond- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. ”
- Michael Faraday- Copy
- 112
“ Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower. ”
- Earl Warren- Copy
- 648
“ Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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