#quietly

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#doing #greed #hostility #lot #motive

He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#anxious #back #being #came #get

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#away #behind #blazes #both #dew

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly. ↗

— Catherine II

#i #like #loudly #praise #quietly

Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses. ↗

— Robert Williams Buchanan

#dust #eyes #here #his #lies

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#because #before #did #directing #few

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#between #billiards #bunch #chess #game

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

#behaviour #comfortably #divine #fearing #god

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#action #after #aligned #coordinate #effectively

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself. ↗

— Guy Finley

#important #just #more #only #quietly