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• Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Book, Reading

  Sesame and Lilies preface (1865)

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• We studied our angels for a few moments more, looking at where we had lain side by side in that sweet, quiet moment. I wished what I’d said was true, that we had truly left our mark on the mountain. But I knew that after the next snowfall, our angels would disappear into the whiteness and be nothing more than a memory.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Memories, Angel

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• Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

  George Santayana

  Achievement, Creative, Action

  "10 Quotes: Inspire and Motivate" by Sura College of Competition, p. 28, August 1, 2004.

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• Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Hiccups, Able, Firsts

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• I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Girl, Children, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Smile, Pain, Anger

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• Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

  Robert Schumann

  Heart, Names, Joy

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Morning, Kissing

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• A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.

  Richard G. Scott

  Writing, Giving, Important

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• For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Song, Knowing, Silence

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• When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reflection, Views, Cities

  "Small Gods". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.

  Nick Hornby

  Sorry, Couple, Regret

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• God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian Inspirational, Relax, Nerves

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.52, Fig

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• I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.

  Richelle Mead

  Sandwiches, Asking, Steps

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• There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Memories, Feet, Relief

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.144, eBookIt.com

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• Iggy: "Now what? Who you gonna call?" A quiet voice in the hallway outside: "Ghostbusters!" (Captain Perry and John groan) John: "That phrase is ruined forever.

  James Patterson

  Quiet Voice, Forever, Phrases

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• Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Class, Free Education, People

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• Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Spring, Flower, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2009). “Second April: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Children, Quiet Person, Excited

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• I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

  Patti Stanger

  Believe, Shy, Hard

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• She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.

  Tom Perrotta

  Life, Girl, Inspiration

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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• We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Teammate, Silent

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• Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Meditation, Needs, Behaviour

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• Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

  Laurence Sterne

  Marriage, Numbers, Alarms

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• After all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked or lost. Here, though, in the quiet pressed against each other, this felt familiar to me. And it was nice to let someone get close again, even if it was just for a little while.

  Sarah Dessen

  Nice, Littles, Too Much

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