I like a quiet life, you know me.
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Great peace is found in little busy-ness. Chaucer
Captain of the 'Weser': So, what's it like down there, in a submarine? Der Leitende: It's... quiet. Captain of the 'Weser': Quiet? Hmm.
Paul Bäumer: War isn't the way it looks back here.
The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet...He closed his eyes...And still it was quie...
Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They laugh out loud and talk out loud. Libraries used to be quiet, but they aren't anymore because you let all the assholes i...
Ernie Bishop: Just a minute! Quiet everybody! Quiet, quiet. Now get this, it's from London. Ma Bailey: Oh! Ernie Bishop: [Reading the telegram in his hand] Mr. Gower cabled you need cash, stop. My office instructed to advance you up to twenty-five th...
Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.
But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us...
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure ...
It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.
... Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.
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.
So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.
Sanjuro: [standing in a street that is littered with corpses] Now we'll have some peace and quiet in this town.
I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.
Tjaden: Me and the Kaiser, we are both fighting. The only difference is the Kaiser isn't here!
You must keep quiet or say only things that improve silence.
Reading isn’t quite loud, but it’s quiet and loud—quiet on the outside, loud on the inside. Sort of like a mime orgy.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
