#quiet

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#back #childhood #days #delusions #happy

I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general. ↗

— Steve Blake

#around #family #fun #general #goofy

The good and the wise lead quiet lives. ↗

— Euripides

#lead #lives #quiet #wise

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#environment #every #every time #forest #i

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#civilised #class #education #free #great

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers. ↗

— Ester Buchholz

#original #quiet #inspirational

No. Have it here where it is quiet." "You and your quiet", said Brett. "What is it men feel about quiet?" "We like it," said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#noise #quiet #men

To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I was motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #library-books #quiet-please #motivational

...killing rats wasn’t in my job description. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #quiet-please #description

We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #library-books #quiet-please #librarians