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Raul Castro is doing things that Cuba needs. A lot of people didn't believe in him, but his work is on display. He is changing the country quietly, without speeches, and without bragging about it. – Jose Fernandez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
South Sudan's war represents one of the longest and most forgotten African conflicts, its tragic consequences are quietly fading away from the headlines, making these pictures even more crucial. – Fabio Bucciarelli	Found on CNN 9 years ago
One by one, either loudly or quietly, they will be rolling out some amazing deals. – Panjiva CEO Josh Green	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Quietly, almost a breath, an angel touched you by the hand - your heart, he made it shine in the times of hope. – Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. – Thornton Wilder	added by anonymous 9 years ago
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	added by anonymous 9 years ago
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism. All this stuff you read about men yelling and screaming, beating against the bars, running spoons along them, guards rushing in with clubs -- all that is for the big house. A good jail is one of the quietest places in the world. Life in jail is in suspension. – Raymond Chandler	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. – Edgar Allan Poe	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. – Don Marquis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. – William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? – Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. – Thornton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony. – William Ellery Channing	added by anonymous 14 years ago
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. – Erich Segal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. – Michael Konda	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. – Alice Walker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. – Sir Barnett Cocks	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. – William Dement	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. – Bruce Lee	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Raul Castro is doing things that Cuba needs. A lot of people didn't believe in him, but his work is on display. He is changing the country quietly, without speeches, and without bragging about it.

– Jose Fernandez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

South Sudan's war represents one of the longest and most forgotten African conflicts, its tragic consequences are quietly fading away from the headlines, making these pictures even more crucial.

– Fabio Bucciarelli

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One by one, either loudly or quietly, they will be rolling out some amazing deals.

– Panjiva CEO Josh Green

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Quietly, almost a breath, an angel touched you by the hand - your heart, he made it shine in the times of hope.

– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

– Thornton Wilder

added by anonymous
9 years ago

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

added by anonymous
9 years ago

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism. All this stuff you read about men yelling and screaming, beating against the bars, running spoons along them, guards rushing in with clubs -- all that is for the big house. A good jail is one of the quietest places in the world. Life in jail is in suspension.

– Raymond Chandler

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

– Edgar Allan Poe

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.

– Don Marquis

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

– William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?

– Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

– Thornton