#quiet

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#am #any #art #ask #aware

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#country #few #lonely #many #people

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#art #exhausted #generally #great #her

One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#comfortable #confidence #dedicated #father #friend

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. ↗

— Anne Frank

#alone #because #best #does #feel

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#cambridge #corner #grow #i #quietly

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference. ↗

— Ali MacGraw

#i #makes #person #quiet #want

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. ↗

— John Major

#believe #consensus #does #keeps #people

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. ↗