Quiet Quotes - Page 9

• When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Children, Childhood, Protected

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in anything close to politics up to this point I mean much like his father-in-law, and he's just such an unknown figure. I mean at least we knew Donald Trump as a reality television star and as a very bombastic figure. But Jared is so quiet, and he's so uninterested in courting press attention.

  Sarah Ellison

  Stars, Father, Mean

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Introvert, Turns

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

  Barack Obama

  Steps, Sometimes, Sensibility

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Harvest, Open Mindedness

  "A Poet's Epitaph" l. 51 (1800)

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• Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally quiet.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Years, Earth

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to "keep quiet." I can understand her because she was a Holocaust survivor, and for her survival, she had to keep quiet. But I didn't obey my grandmother when I was a child, and in this case, I don't obey her either.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Children, Grandmother, Choices

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Culture, Demand

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mind, Relax, Firsts

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• I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the '50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.

  Bill Ayers

  Dream, Children, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A friend will give you immediate feedback and that will be that friend's opinion. An analyst often remains quiet and you hear what you've said and you gain your own insight.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Giving, Gains, Opinion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had a lot of good times. I had a lot of fun. I liked what I was doing, so I just kept doing it. At the Tape Music Center, I was working from midnight to four in the morning. Because then it was quiet, nobody was there, and I could just do my work. I didn't have to fool around.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Morning, Fun, Fool

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Rivers, Imagination

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.

  Dan Santat

  Artist, Folks, Studios

  "Helping Students Make Friends". Interview with Brian Smith, www.scholastic.com. August 25, 2014.

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• I think we should SHUT UP, stop talking about negotiating anything, just be quiet and let things sort themselves out a little bit, and see what happens. Maybe there will be one or two other countries that think what Britain's done, we can do, and it seems the right way to go.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

  Jen Kirkman

  Mean, Deep Thought, Traveled

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

  Alison Bechdel

  Country, New York, Mean

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them. But when very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law.

  Howard Zinn

  Nice, Law, People

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• The media has been trying to undermine Donald Trump from the moment he got into the race, and he has triumphed over them at every turn - and they can't stand that, either. And they've realized they alone don't have the power to get rid of Trump. So now it's join forces with the deep state, the sabotage going on with the Obama army that is working in quiet and invisibility within the shadow government, if you will. And even that is not distancing Trump's supporters from him. They know full well what's happening, and they're infuriated by it, and they're furious.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Army, Race, Government

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Winning, Giving, Worry

  Source: www.chud.com

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• The maha-mantra was prescribed for modern times because of the fast-paced nature of things today. Even when people do get into a little quiet place, it's very difficult to calm the mind for very long.

  Mukunda Goswami

  Long, People, Mind

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

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• There were times when I was frustrated, and cried and felt helpless, but the reality in Ethiopia is that you don't have much of an option. You either keep quiet or you get added to the list of people being jailed or killed.

  Feyisa Lilesa

  Reality, People, Frustrated

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• The West and its media have barely covered the recent wave of repression in Turkey. The reason is simple. They are paying billions to Ankara to control and take back the refugees of the Syrian war. They are fearful that if they offend Tayyip Erdogan he will use the refugees as a political weapon. So they keep quiet.

  Tariq Ali

  War, Simple, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.

  Felicity Jones

  Self, Interesting, Inner Strength

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Differences, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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