Quotes about quieter (16 Quotes)



    They said, 'Come on, who would you rather have living next to you The crazy white-separatist Weavers or a family of respected FBI agents' ... The only answer I could come up with was, 'Whichever one plays their music quieter.'

    The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn.

    A last-minute replacement for a regular dealer who was unable to be there, The Dog and Pony Show, operated by Carol Brown, came from Walpole, N. H. We are less than an hour away, and were able to put things together quickly, ... It was a pleasure to be a part of the Bromley Mountain Show. I found it to be a very friendly show - dealers and visitors alike. The lodge is an attractive, atmospheric venue the setting beautiful. Saturday was busy and sales brisk all around. I sold a variety of pieces - furniture, paintings and prints, some smalls and quite a few of my English horse brasses over the two days, and although Sunday, with four shows going on close by, was quieter, there was still a nice crowd. I actually had some repeat business Monday at my Walpole shop.

    I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.


    They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.


    Colours change in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the greens but by the evening the reds loose their piquancy, embracing a quieter tone and shifting toward the blues in the rainbow. Yellow flowers remain bright, and white ones become luminous, shining like ghostly figures against a darkening green background.


    Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.


    In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.


    Most of our conflicts and difficulties come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realizing them as parts of one whole. If our practical life is centered on our own interests, cluttered up by possessions, distracted by ambitions, passions, wants and worries, beset by a sense of our own rights and importance, or anxieties for our own future, or longings for our own success, we need not expect that our spiritual life will be a contrast to all this. The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction not merely the idea that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.

    The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

    This absurd conclusion demonstrates that this action is driven by politics, not on-the-ground facts. It also ignores the real strides the snowmobile manufacturers have made in recent years to create cleaner and quieter machines.



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