113 Quietly Quotes for You to Enjoy

Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging. Guy Finley

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it. Guy Finley

Great Freedom Eyes Promises Looking Whatever Live Incomplete Our Spending Our Lives Ourselves See Seek Through Instead Know Within Itself Task Quietly Refuse Then Us Agree Wholeness Now Lives Watch Need

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. Henry Walter Bates

Anger Trouble Monkey Seemed Sore Quietly Poor Ground Display Seated

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. Isaac Barrow

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life. Isabella Bird

Life Home Me Pure Monotonous Air Must Seem Scenery Like Dry Rocky Very Mountain Person Quietly Sitting Whom Traveling

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. Jawaharlal Nehru

Danger Runs More Himself Very Than Person Quietly Who Away

Some athletes feel they have to show they're confident and talk about what they're going to achieve. I don't think there's anything wrong with just quietly believing in yourself and just getting on with it. You don't have to talk about it all the time; you want your performances to show for it. Jessica Ennis-Hill

The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends. John C. Calhoun

Time Good Management Strong Good Friends Difficulties Settled Our Weak Ourselves Would Proper Had Taking Talk Without Always Permit Affairs Scold Been Offence Mexico Friends Quietly Skill Should Acted

In the South, dove hunts do not draw quietly to a close. Sometimes, at the simplest end, a grill and cooler are hauled to the edge of the field, and the doves' breasts are grilled - usually swaddled in bacon, maybe with a jalapeno tucked inside - as the hunters tell and retell tales of the day's shooting. Jonathan Miles

Day Sometimes Edge Field Draw Hunt Tell Bacon Hunters Inside Hauled Simplest Tales South End Close Quietly Shooting Tucked Maybe Grill Breasts Dove Doves Cooler

My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish. Joseph Bruchac

If you are Black or Brown, or a liberal or immigrant or Democrat, or a woman unwilling to quietly submit, then Ailes was the ultimate villain. You were the object of mockery and scorn - sometimes overt, often subtle. You were the thing to be gawked at, pawed at, jeered at, propositioned or feared. Joy Reid

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized. Jurgen Moltmann

Capitalism Racism Men Long Own Way Misery Develop Longer Attitudes Institutionalized Causes Been Quietly Inhuman Found Inner

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty. Kate Reardon

I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding. Kate Spade

Love Think Everything Almost Like She Does Quietly Gold

I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.' Keanu Reeves

Work Great You Creative World Opportunity Way Say Van About Casting Directors Had He Put Over Like Talk Well Styles Does Hand Quietly Quite Just Different Your Milieu Internal Who Many Different Styles Thing Here

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on. Lance Loud

Life Became Accepted Shock Shocks Quietly

I think I was raised by a very humble mother, who, if anything, is probably over skeptical. She has that sense of everything being a bonus: like, you have your lot, and anything else is on top. She's quietly proud, and quietly humble. Lara Pulver

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl. Lauren Graham

You Suffering Women Wife Girl Wild Like Parts Quietly Either

Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and - if married to princes or kings - be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile. Linda Colley

Good Become Luck Good Deeds Married Charitable Pretty Kings Above Had Supportive Look Princes Limited Females Queens Been Discreet Fertile Very Expected Quietly Roles Granted Who Deeds Royal

Suppose a part of Britain or a part of America was taken away and given to the Jews as Israel. Do you think the Americans are going to sit quietly and say 'Welcome,' and all that? They won't. Mahathir Mohamad

You Welcome Sit Think Jews Say Given Part Taken Suppose Israel America Quietly American Going Away Britain

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

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