“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.” MenLongMightNaturalRacePrinciplesSolitudeQuietFindingsCreatorChosenSpotsPreferenceLong LifeReposeCemeteryCharterSecludedEquality Of Man Author:Thaddeus Stevens
“Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.” ArtRememberFoundSecretGreaterPaintingQuietAimExcellenceVariousChosenFewerEloquenceSingleness Book:Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious Source: Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious
“Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.” Would BeLinesBattleQuietTablesChosenBreakfastLucy Author:Lisa Kleypas
“Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.” WorldHumansMadeEndsChoicesStepsSolitudeQuietChosenMatesThreadPullingThunderPreyPredatorPresumptionBeetles Book:Prodigal Summer Source: Prodigal Summer
“I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon” WantedGirlMorningAirColdQuietKissingChosenSalmonQuiet TimeCold Morning Author:Alice Sebold
“The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when you're with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.” FeelsDifferentMomentsDifferencesSilenceKnownBrokenQuietEmptyChosenPauses Book:The Truth About Forever Source: The Truth About Forever
“I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband who sought me out on quiet nights. Something in between. This Linden has never woven his fingers through mine, never chosen me from a line of weary Gathered girls, never said he loved me in a myriad of coloured lights. We are nothing to each other.” SaidLightNightGirlFatherSidesLinesMinesColdQuietHusbandFingersWarmChosenWearyWoven Book:Sever Source: Sever