#quiet

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock. ↗

— Jane Siberry

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I live quietly at home among my family and friends. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#among #friends #home #i #live

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them. ↗

— Evan Dando

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We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

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My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#am #drawing #england #ever #gardener

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

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There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#fun #life #nature #quiet #stillness

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth. ↗

— Anna Torv

#always #being #cooler #emotions #enjoyed

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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