Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.
I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet.
I never really necessarily liked being quiet.
I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.
'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad.
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.
Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.
Simply put, we have to take charge and take responsibility and support what's in the marketplace. Because, quiet as it's kept, the powers that be are cognizant of what our spending dollar means. And it is kept a little quiet, and we have to become aware of what we mean in the marketplace and take advantage of it.
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
At a grand evening service in a church, my concerto created such a furor that the worshippers rushed out to keep the crowd outside the church quiet.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.
