"The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down."
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"It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy."
"I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference."
"I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning."
"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."
"I don't think any administration, when they come in, thinks that their job is to tell the scientists what the science looks like or to be quiet about the science. Scientists need to remain true and not allow science to be politicized. Scientists are not politicians, and no politician should consider themselves to be a scientist."
"Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together."
"One day you'll have a quiet heart."
"I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself."
"At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known."
"Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him."
"Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press."
"I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet."
"Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment."
"Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity."
"I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart."
"There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth."
"He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul."
"They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence."
"Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths."