#quietly

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#advertiser #background #business #go #magic

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#boy #doing #get #hope #i

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#being #courage #god #him #just

But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp. ↗

— Black Kettle

#could #down #his way #i #keep

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#doing #greed #hostility #lot #motive

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#moves #notice #persistently #progress #quietly

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now. ↗

— David R. Brower

#atomic energy #committee #days #energy #having

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#been #footnote #governor #had #i

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#between #billiards #bunch #chess #game

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#course #face #fighting #gay #majority