Quiet Quotes - Page 2

• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

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• The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

  Michael Faraday

  Important, All Things, Know How

  "Treasury of the Christian Faith: An Encyclopedic Handbook of the Range and Witness of Christianity". Book by Stanley Irving Stuber and Thomas Curtis Clark, 1949.

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• Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Heart, Thee

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• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Music, Communication, Silence

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• We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Believe, Heart

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.67, Random House

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• It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Keeping Quiet, Difficult, Ifs

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.31, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Yoga

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Way, Comedy, Fame

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?

  Spike Milligan

  Use, Amusing

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• Happiness means quiet nerves.

  W. C. Fields

  Mean, Nerves

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• Silence is the mother of truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Beautiful, Mother

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.182

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• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiring, Perfect, Excellence

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• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  Queen Victoria

  Events, Nerves, Calm

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• All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Lost Youth, Western Movie

  All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1

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• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Adversity, Light

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1854). “The Beauties of Shakespeare. [By W. Dodd.]”, p.19

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• 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

  Peace, Feet, Mind

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• No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Veterans Day, Believe, Soldier

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.77, Random House

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• We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Lying, Fall, Ducks

  Title of translation of his novel Im Westen nichts Neues (Nothing New in the West, 1929). Cf. the title of a poem by Ethel L. Beers: All Quiet along the Potomac (1861)

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• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Perspective, Entrepreneur

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Dreams of Elsewhere”, p.162, Neil Wilson Publishing

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  You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 2

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, Important, Boots

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• The world is quiet here.

  Daniel Handler

  Peace, World

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sad, Men, Despair

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Patriotic, Race

  'O'Flaherty V.C.' (1919) p. 178

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