#quiet

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. ↗

— James Joyce

#ink #pen #quiet #room #table

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#back #comes #different #discrimination #gender

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#could #found #gold #had #land

You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet. ↗

— Paul Kagame

#kept #quiet #survive #these #to survive

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#extreme sports #i #into #just #life

One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#again #appearance #devastating #embarrassing #girl

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#god #home #much #prayer #problems

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was. ↗

— Ben Vereen

#direction #go #happen #least #life

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#am #another #basic #basic idea #coming

Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth let's not speak in any language, let's stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines, we would all be together in a sudden strangeness. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm whales and the man gathering salt would look at his hurt hands. Those who prepare green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire, victory with no survivors, would put on clean clothes and walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing. What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. Life is what it is about; I want no truck with death. If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death. Perhaps the earth can teach us as when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive. Now I'll count up to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#love #peace #quiet #stillness #death