#quiet

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? ↗

— Ralph Marston

#candle #children #doing #flickering #just

Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#honest #i #laugh #more #myself

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children. ↗

— Judith Martin

#conduct #education #foreign #foreign language #inducement

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#begin #black #blues #dark #house

When we lose our liberties, it does not happen in one dramatic moment, but gradually and quietly. ↗

— John E. Moss

#dramatic #gradually #happen #liberties #lose

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#every man #man #man needs #needs #nymph

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#danger #exposes #himself #more #person

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#cannot #enough #heard #learn #our

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#i #i can #live #lot #now

This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching TV. But I basically never get that chance. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#basically #being #chance #get #happens