#quiet

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

— Laurence Sterne

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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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In quiet places, reason abounds. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#quiet #reason

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods. ↗

— Gustav Stickley

#logs #nook #peace #quiet #rhythmic

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#anxious #back #being #came #get

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ↗

— Ice T

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It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way. ↗

— James Taylor

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We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. ↗

— Susan Taylor

#create #examine #gives #honestly #itself