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“Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.”

Men Littles Pay Heard Citizens Quiet Taxes Clean Forgotten Debt Circles Virtuous Forgetfulness

Book:The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

“A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.”

Ifs Matter Pay Attention Dangerous Serious Baby Quiet Democrat Noise

Author:Will Rogers

“If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do not pay it the least attention, never mind where it is; just keep quiet and hope it will go away - for that's your best chance; you have none in a stand-up fight with a good thorough-going African insect.”

Ifs Mind Looks Fighting Chance Pay Attention Figures Quiet Crosses Flying Going Away Insects Thorough Gems Lobster

Book:West African Studies

Source: West African Studies

“Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.”

Has Beens Pay Quiet Retirement Accord Heed Insufficiency

Book:Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini

Source: Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini

“A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.”

Whole Pay Principles Fashion Ready Taste Quiet All Things Dresses Simplicity Gentleman Exquisite Avoidance Extravagant Tailors Neatness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."”

Want I Can Sometimes Character Pay Attention Scene Quiet Okay Let Me

Author:Viola Davis

“In some ways I think it [the strike] was important. I'm not sure that "worth it" is the right term, but it was important. A lot of people lost a lot of things - I was greatly concerned for our crews. Those are the people who really sort of paid. A lot of us in quiet ways did everything that we could to help people pay mortgages.”

People Thinking Way Important Helping Lost Term Pay Quiet Concerned Paid Strikes Not Sure Worth It Crew Mortgage

Author:Edward Allen Bernero

“I have to take care of the house, and the dogs, and the Macondo Board meetings, all those e-mails, the letters that are going to fans. And you've got to pay bills. These things eat up your time. You have to prepare and pack to go on that trip. Then when you come back you have to file all that stuff, answer all that mail, and that's not even washing the clothes or any of that. So it takes as many days as I've been away to come back to normal and to get quiet.”

Care House Stuff Answers Pay Fans Dog Goes On Quiet Normal Clothes Letters Bills Meetings Take Care Boards Mail Packs Files Washing Board Meetings

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.”

Knows Long Sometimes Kids Hate Hours Pay Fronts Tvs Mom Easier Quiet Bills Parks Long Ago Laundry Peace And Quiet Working Mom

Author:Michelle Obama

“Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3”

Giving War Done Would Be Pay Fronts Quiet Western Ems

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.”

Ifs Way Needs Trying Energy Simple Powerful Pay Attention Seeing Quiet Relate Pay Attention Feeding Another Way Very Powerful

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.”

Seems Pay Loneliness Quiet Peace And Quiet

Book:The Brothers Bishop

Source: The Brothers Bishop

“And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.”

Ifs Enough Next Sound Pay Taken Doors Heard Quiet Eating Loud Locked Clicks

Author:Julia Quinn

“I noticed you right away." She gave me an approving look. "I like quiet, polite men. And men who wear Hugo Boss. I was hoping you weren't gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul." "Uh...sorry," I said. "It's pretty much full-time now. The pay's not great, but the perks...”

Men Looks Said Pay Half Gay Quiet Sorry Boss Polite Perks Approving

Author:Josh Lanyon

“He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.”

Heart Soul Passion Wish Waiting Pay Attention Opinion Taught Quiet Rivers Judgement Incessantly Quiet Heart

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”