#quiet

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#quiet #silence #inspirational

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

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

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

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#daily #doing #interesting #life #make

We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#find #follow #guides #inside #life

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#arranging #bowl #crowded #day #flowers