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“Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows”

Knows Said Society Quiet Fellows

Author:Kin Hubbard

“We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.”

Humans Moments Bigs Sound Cities Silence Strange Quiet Breaths Fellows Noise Instant Seconds Sunlight Traffic Miraculous Footsteps Big Cities

Author:Dorothy Day

“In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.”

Sometimes Moments Hours Wonder Fine Quiet Fellows Earning

Author:A. A. Milne

“Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.”

Book Home Quiet Fellows Evening Lazy Good Book Raiding

Author:Dorothy Parker

“a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.”

Men Trying Might Used Risk Trouble Quiet Fellows Lays Folks Damage Cant

Book:Light in August

Source: Light in August

“When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.”

Views Cities Seeing Quiet Reflection Fellows Point Of View Tendencies Whim Discworld Small Gods Quiet Reflection

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.”

People Quiet Fellows Delightful Homicidal Unassuming

Book:And Then There Were None

Source: And Then There Were None

“When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”

Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

“Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking