#quiet

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#been #farmers #fighting #food #front

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#children #committed #end #quietly #talking

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child. ↗

— Layne Staley

#child #closest #death #devastated #enough

It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#mutism #quiet #silence #life

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. ↗

— John Bunyan

#foot #golden #minds #more #our

It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful. No, your beauty should come from within you - the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. This beauty will never disappear, and it is worth very much to God. Peter 3:3-4 ↗

— Anonymous

#gentle #kindness #quiet #true-beauty #beauty

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ↗

— Helen Keller

#achieved #ambition #cannot #character #developed

Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things. ↗

— Toni Collette

#quiet #really #sometimes #things

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak. ↗

— Dane Cook

#home #i #junior #junior year #kinda

I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#because #breaking #citizens #fellow #fellow citizens