Quietly Quotes
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Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.
Dennis Nurkse
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It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.
Cornplanter
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If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.
Neill F. Marriott
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Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.
Josh McDermitt
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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
William Faulkner
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If I hadn't got into comedy, I wouldn't have met Abbey, my wife, and I wouldn't have my two girls, and the whole thing unravels. That's the thing about being basically - whisper it quietly - happy, is that you don't really want to change anything, because once you start changing stuff, then what you've got all disappears.
Robert Webb