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Jane Horrocks

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S. E. HINTON When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.
W.B. YEATS Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are qui...
BRYAN STEVENSON Quiet people have the loudest minds.
STEPHEN HAWKING Quiet people have the loudest minds.
STEPHEN KING If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on...
JOHN BUNYAN The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
EURIPIDES The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
BILL COSBY Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
LATIN PROVERB Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.
KIN HUBBARD Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead,...
SARAH DESSEN It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.
GAYLE FORMAN We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives yo...
SUSAN L. TAYLOR God gives quietness at last.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
WALTER BAGEHOT Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your v...
JAMES BAKER Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
ZEN PROVERB An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
WALTER BAGEHOT All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE In quiet places, reason abounds.
ADLAI STEVENSON Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
DOUG LARSON Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O God, that man should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Speak low if you speak love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter y...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal suf...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's tr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep on...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Blow, wind! Come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done cannot be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own privat...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Quiet is what home would be without children.
ANONYMOUS It wasn't too long. Everybody got quiet. Everything got quiet.
CHARLIE MANUEL Everything is louder when you're quiet.
CHARLES M FORD II I had no idea it was quiet when it snows.
CHUCK BUCK You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
PAUL SIMON In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
GEOFFREY F. FISHER In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely
GEOFFREY FISHER In Kansas, people are reserved, quiet, taciturn.
EVERETT MCGILL I like a quiet life.
WENDY COPE I enjoy the quiet life.
MARTIN YAN Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy ...
TAMORA PIERCE It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it.
MARK TWAIN Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
IRISH PROVERB When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.
PHILIP K. DICK When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.
GEORGE HERBERT It's nice and quiet. That's the way I like it. I don't like a lot of noise.
RAFAEL BETANCOURT It's important to have quiet time and isolation.
JOHN BURNSIDE When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.
DIEGO DELLA VALLE I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
ERIC CLAPTON There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Noise affects it when it is shallow like that so want to be a little bit quiet like that and yeah, i...
LANCE HENINGER Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
AGATHA CHRISTIE People will come relax and enjoy the peace and quiet.
FRED PHILLIPS He was a quiet guy, but not in a weird way. Just quiet.
CINDY MILLER Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Ye...
SUSAN CAIN The unusual thing about quiet is that when you seek it, it is almost impossible to achieve. When you...
HILARY THAYER HAMANN Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured...
REIF LARSEN Just because you don't say much doesn't mean people don't notice you. It's actually the quiet ones w...
AMY EFAW The quiet times are the ones to hold on to.
DAVID LEVITHAN Never think a quiet man is either a coward or dumb.
TROY J. GAINEY A silent mouth is sweet to hear
IRISH SAYINGS He's got a quiet fire about him.
DARRICK MARTIN Silence is not quiet.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a que...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE A little with quiet is the only diet.
PROVERB Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")
RICHARD MATHESON The house was very quiet, and the fog ... pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.
E.M. FORSTER It's quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people's dreams So quiet that you can almost...
GAYLE FORMAN Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.
SOURCE UNKNOWN For people who like peace and quiet: a phone less cord.
UNKNOWN Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.
MARY MCGARRY MORRIS I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave
JOHN KEATS I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about...
HAILEY BALDWIN I really love peace and quiet.
BARRY SANDERS I live a generally quiet life, as it were.
MINNIE DRIVER I have a very quiet life. There's nothing weird.
GEORGE A. ROMERO At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI If they remain quiet, people might think, there is something to hide.
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THE QUIET GIRL

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CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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JANE HOWARD From politics it was an easy step to silence.
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JANE ADDAMS One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
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