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“It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet. ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.”

People Ifs Children Church Attitude Leader Cry Quiet Preaching Sublime Reproach Crying Child

Book:With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards

Source: With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards

“I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.”

Ifs Wanted Quiet Library Bloody

Author:Anita Roddick

“I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get a piano if I need one. So there’s something nice about being on the road and focusing on something you want to do.”

People Ifs Want Needs Kind I Can Cities Nice Quiet Piano

Author:Philip Glass

“When you're doing comedy on stage, it's great because you have the audience there and they're like another actor in the scene. You feed off of them, laugh. But in film when everyone's quiet, it's all about timing. But the key to that is to be authentic. Be in the moment, and if you play the moment truthfully, the humor will be there.”

Ifs Play Moments Film Actors Audience Laughing Comedy Stage Keys Scene Quiet Timing

Author:Wendell Pierce

“On the path to truth, you can't see many people; truth's way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!”

People Ifs Way Looks Walks Path Quiet Calm Crowds Get Away

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you are ensnarled in pornography, make a total commitment to overcome it now. Find a quiet place; pray urgently for help and support. Be patient and obedient. Don't give up.”

Ifs Giving Helping Support Praying Quiet Giving Up Commitment Overcoming Patient Pornography Be Patient Don't Give Up Obedient Quiet Place Help And Support

Author:Richard G. Scott

“This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.”

Ifs Looks Our Lives Seeing Willing Quiet Benefits Impression Pauses Viewers Battering

Author:Dorothea Lange

“The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, logically, Unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation.”

“I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.”

Ifs World Heart Asks Talking My Heart Please Quiet Absence Permission Trumpets Talking About Me

Book:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As a manager, it signals failure. But if you move out of control and into an appreciation of natural order, you understand that the only way a system changes is when it is far from equilibrium, when it moves from the 'quiet' we treasure and is confronted with the choice to die or reorganize. And you can't reorganize to a higher level unless you risk the perils of the path through chaos.”

“If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.”

Ifs Writing Years Force Perfect Five Quiet Years Ago Five Years Mature Better Than You

Book:Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912

Source: Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912

“It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.”

People Ifs Doe Happens Past Difficult Community Church Company Risk Quiet Judgment Introvert Pastor Emphasis Loner Congregation Aloofness

Book:An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

“If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.”

Ifs Feels Audience Quiet Busy

Author:Ang Lee

“While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.”

“Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. It makes growing up genuinely worthwhile. I am quite well aware of the hazards of smoking. Smoking is not a healthful pastime, it is true. Smoking is indeed no bracing dip in the ocean, no strenuous series of calisthenics, no two laps around the reservoir. On the other hand, smoking has to its advantage the fact that is a quiet pursuit. Smoking is, in effect a dignified sport.”

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.”

Ifs Giving Done Hours Church Prayer Poor Quiet More Time Reap

Author:Dorothy Day

“Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.”

Ifs Want Quiet Hey Monk Quiet Life

Author:Michael Caine

“My show is an anti-show and the audience have to want to listen. I'm sitting down, there's only one of me, I don't talk much to the audience and it is very quiet. I wouldn't be able to do that kind of show if people didn't know me and my material.”

People Ifs Knows Want Kind Shows Able Audience Materials Quiet Sitting Know Me Sitting Down

Author:Jose Gonzalez

“Noah Baumbach does more takes than any director I've ever worked with. He runs a very quiet set and he runs a very hard working set. He has such an intense level of dedication to what's happening that he cultivates a group of people around him who have an equal level of dedication. Nobody asks, "When is lunch?" That's just not part of our sets. It's complete immersion. He has a 'no cell phone' rule. Nobody checks their cell phone. Nobody reads on set. It's like, "If you're there, you're there. If you're not on board with that, don't work on this movie."”

People Ifs Doe Hard Running Asks Levels Groups Hard Work Quiet Directors Equal Happenings Phones Intense Checks Cells Boards Lunch Dedication Cell Phone Immersion

Author:Greta Gerwig

“Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you're quiet and you're just not the most gregarious person, that you're like.. I don't know, self-involved, rude possibly, frigid. I get that a lot from people who don't know me, like online all you guys think I never smile, ever. It's not true. I do smile sometimes.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Ideas Self Sometimes Guy Involved Quiet Online Know Me Rude Gregarious Frigid Wrong Ideas

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody left but Jesus. Observe this, for it is the same with us: when he is alone he is able to speak in the temple of the soul. If anyone else is speaking in the temple of your soul, Jesus will keep still, as if he were not at home. And he is not at home wherever there are strange guests-guests with whom the soul holds conversation, guests who are seeking to bargain. If Jesus is to speak and be heard, the soul must be alone and quiet.”

Ifs Stills Soul Home Able Jesus Left Speak Heard Strange Quiet Conversation Seeking Your Soul Temples Guests Bargains

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.”

Ifs Mind Silence Quiet Happenings Silent Silence Is Contagious

Author:H. W. L. Poonja

“There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.”

Ifs Enough Quiet

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.”

Ifs Needs Care America Given Grief Struggle Seeing Promise Quiet Remains Terrorism Take Care Turkeys Own Business

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.”

People Ifs Believe Stills Sometimes Matter Hard Enough Sound Tree Flower Listening Quiet Bird I Still Believe

Book:In Cold Blood

Source: In Cold Blood

“I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.”

Ifs Book Different Would Be Artist My Own Quiet Yeah Who I Am Performers My Own Life Collectors Shopkeepers

Author:Mos Def

“I know when we were really little, my mom would say to me, "If you can, the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, just get quiet and ask God, 'Who is Patricia?' You can feel your own nature and know who you are."”

Ifs Knows Feels Firsts Littles Asks Morning Mom Quiet Wake Up Who You Are My Mom

Author:Patricia Arquette

“I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I'm a Libra! I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone. If I can have even a twenty-minute walk or swim and another twenty quiet minutes to myself at night, I can be much more giving all day long.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Long I Can Night Walks Minutes Balance Quiet Twenties Swim Stable Grounded Crave Me Alone Alone Time

Author:Laura Regan

“If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody would get real quiet and then admit that that wasn't the case, that they really felt like they were sort of growing into themselves in a way.”

Ifs Way Long Said Real Enough Felt Cases Growing Quiet Okay Get Real

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.”

Ifs Giving Matter Quiet Sick No Matter What

Author:Alex Haley

“I don't know, it's dorky. Just like quotes and stuff. Something I want to see everyday or something I want to be there. I don't know. I can put a hole in the wall if I want. It's mine. It's very simple. It's a very tiny house, but I can do whatever I want to. I can rip up the terrible vinyl floor and recycle it. Just create a good space. A quiet place to be.”

Ifs Knows Want I Can House Stuff Can Do Simple Space Mines Wall Terrible Quiet Everyday Tiny Holes Rip Vinyl Quiet Place Dorky Tiny Houses

Author:Justin Vernon

“We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu." But one of the members of our group said, "Stay quiet if you can't speak Japanese! It's embarrassing!" So that's when I told myself that I'd show how good I am by studying Japanese hard.”

Ifs Years Made Said Hard Shows Speak Simple Morning Study Groups Expression Quiet Members Years Ago Albums Interviews Japan Embarrassing Debut

Author:Seungri

“Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.”

People Ifs Want Quiet Down And Settling Texas Outrageous Settling Down

Author:Janis Joplin

“If you play basketball, you get into the zone. You can't miss. That's the expansive mindset we're all seeking. But that only comes when the mind is quiet and separate from the noise. And the greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.”

Ifs Mind Play Meditation Missing Quiet Basketball Tools Seeking Mindset Noise Zone

Author:Russell Simmons

“The Baltic republics have invented something totally new. Do you know what? They use the word 'non-citizens' for people who have been living for decades in the territory of Baltic states and have been deprived of a number of political rights. They cannot participate in the election campaigns; they have limited political and social rights. Everybody keeps quiet about it, as if this is the way it should be. Of course, this cannot but cause a certain reaction.”

“If I'm not travelling for external meetings, my usual day at work starts with a quiet session to plan and prioritise things that need to get done, and then clearing off important emails that need attention.”

Ifs Needs Important Done Attention Plans Quiet Meetings Usual Email Session Clearing

Author:Azran Osman Rani

“If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small theaters. You know, to me it's like a church for music. You can sit down and really give yourself to the performance and be comfortable with good surroundings and a clean, quiet atmosphere.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Littles Bits Church Brother Quiet Comfortable Little Bit Performances Theater Down And Clean Marketing Atmosphere My Brother Surroundings

Author:Terry Bozzio

“If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.”

“The media has been trying to undermine Donald Trump from the moment he got into the race, and he has triumphed over them at every turn - and they can't stand that, either. And they've realized they alone don't have the power to get rid of Trump. So now it's join forces with the deep state, the sabotage going on with the Obama army that is working in quiet and invisibility within the shadow government, if you will. And even that is not distancing Trump's supporters from him. They know full well what's happening, and they're infuriated by it, and they're furious.”

Ifs Knows Trying Wells Has Beens States Moments Government Turns Force Race Media Trump Quiet Happenings Shadow Army Supporter Furious Sabotage Invisibility

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“People have to have the desire within themselves to find out who they are. Who am I and what am I doing here and where am I going? Those sort of basic questions. Even without picking up a book or anything. If they just ask themselves that sincerely, in the quiet of the night, the door will open.”

People Ifs Book Desire Night Asks Doors Quiet Sincerely

Author:George Harrison

“I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.”

Ifs Way Writing Lost Quiet Directors Aspect Direct Track Internals

Author:Oliver Stone

“We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.”

“Now I'm more behaved, I think it's age, you get older, more responsible, more quiet. But if I would want to dye my hair, for example red or blue, be sure that I'll dye it!”

Ifs Thinking Want Age Example Hair Quiet Red Responsible Blue

Author:Neymar

“I do 45 minutes a day of stretching and abdominals and I lift light weights of half a kilo. Otherwise, if you strain your muscles, then you have to be quiet and stay without any exercise for a long time. I do heavier weights gradually. I'm going to become Superwoman with oil on my muscles!”

Ifs Long Light Half Minutes Exercise Quiet Long Time Weight Oil Lifts Muscles Strain Stretching Superwoman Abdominals

Author:Sophia Loren

“We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.”

Ifs Voice Ability Praying Quiet Connections Guides Inner Voice

Author:David LaChapelle

“If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.”

Ifs Looks Kind Littles Character Kids School Church Quiet Mice

Author:John Lydon

“I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.”

Ifs Sometimes Half Quiet Difficulty Disappear Suspects Imaginary

Author:Robert Staughton Lynd

“But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.”

Ifs Knows Want Quiet Serenity Make Me Happy Exterior Peace And Serenity

Author:Elle Macpherson

“America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”

People Ifs Bigs Eye America Literature Sound White Stupid Wind Quiet Fortunate Complacency Hurricanes Protestants Serene

Author:Norman Mailer

“I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.”

Ifs Children Hours Rooms Car Quiet Drawing Nine Planes Take Me Racing Pencils Rockets Loner Spaceships Race Car Crayon Take Me Away

Author:Gary Oldman

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