#quiet

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#complains #defects #gentle #imperfect #imperfection

I live quietly at home among my family and friends. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#among #friends #home #i #live

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them. ↗

— Evan Dando

#got #hear #hope #i #lots

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#agony #appears #been #convulsion #different

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#am #drawing #england #ever #gardener

There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying “I'm here”. It was a beautiful night. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#empty-streets #free #friendship #love #night

It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#keep-a-quiet-heart #pain #troubles #life

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#another #beads #byron #child #feel

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#display #ground #monkey #poor #quietly

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice. ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#funny #mice #silence #sneaking #funny