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The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States. Noam Chomsky
I’ve always been very quiet. But I saw a lot of things. Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child, 2010
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave – thank God for the quiet grave – O! I can feel the cold earth upon me – the daisies growing over me – O for this quiet – it will be my first. John Keats
Quiet, isn’t it? Frank Carson, proposed epitaph
Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. I Thessalonians 4:11
It’s awful damn quiet. From Noon Till Three 1976 starring Charles Bronson & Jill Ireland & Douglas Fowley & Stan Haze & Damon Douglas & Hector Morales & Bert Williams & Davis Robserts & Betty Cole et al, director Frank D Gilroy, Graham
Anything For a Quiet Life. Thomas Middleton, title of play c.1620
I could well be content
To entertain the lag-end of my life
With quiet hours. William Shakespeare, I Henry V i 23
Not a mouse stirring. William Shakespeare, Hamlet I i 10
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein
If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colourful and lively. Mel Brooks
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. Bertrand Russell
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet. W B Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
I’m gonna be as quiet as an ant pissing on cotton. Heist 2001 starring Gene Hackman & Danny DeVito & Delroy Lindo & Rebecca Pidgeon & Sam Rockwell & Ricky Jay & Patti LuPone & Alan Bilzerian & Richard Friedman & Robert Lussier et al, director David Mamet, Jimmy
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative party conference