#quiet

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#ones #plodding #quiet #race #steady

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #kids #poetry #quiet #those

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#buried #clamour #easily #god #quiet

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game. ↗

— John Starks

#focused #game #i #i remember #locker

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

— Laurence Sterne

#attentions #consists #courtship #nor #number

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

#came #days #depths #feel #forget

In quiet places, reason abounds. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#quiet #reason

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

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

#brother #came #dude #family #father

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

#being #being quiet #discovery #emotional #emotional experiences