"It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do"
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"We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved."
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"There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk."
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"It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself."
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"If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does."
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"Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised."
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"From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true."
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"I remember going on carriage rides with Dad when we'd visit. I think quiet L.A. suited him better, but he loved to see shows here, he loved to visit his friends in the Hamptons."
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"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?"
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"Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known."
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"Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off."
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"In my quiet, I was working something out."
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"What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is."
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"There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know."
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"This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction."
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"A lot of loud people have been talking over the years; they have these huge voices but don't say much. I'm sure there are a lot of really quiet people who have a lot more intelligent things to say than the loud people."
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"You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets."
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"Truth hath a quiet breast."
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"Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call."
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"There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is."
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