#quiet

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly. ↗

— Catherine II

#i #like #loudly #praise #quietly

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#broke #committee #company #ended #fate

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#actually #alien #also #contact #evidence

It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#change

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#between #blinding #conclusion #decent #deduction

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. ↗

— Anaxagoras

#exceedingly #live #men #mine #quiet

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops! ↗

— Marc Anthony

#born #first #her #him #make

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative? ↗

— Michael Arad

#design #feel #form #how #own

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#anonymity #around #away #i #just

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#both #deeply #differences #essential #huge