“How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” PeopleMenStatesGodReligionOrderStuffDifferencesChurchCommonDyingQuietAuthorityHungerIllExcellentOne Man Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.” IfsWantStatesStuffQuietCombustion Author:Julius Sumner Miller
“Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.” BookHardStuffQuietBarsIronBloodySonnetSeducingEtherealMonasteriesVeneerBook Learning Author:Janice Galloway
“We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel... or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?” LooksMeanEarthSpiritGuyStuffSidesWorstQuietAngelDiedSelfishThat GuySo SadBad Stuff Author:Tupac Shakur
“People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayMayMeanHandsStuffToo MuchQuietBackgroundsHandle Author:Derrick Rose
“I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested.” StuffSeriousQuietSillyTempoMixingSilly Stuff Author:Tom Rush
“Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.” WorldWarWantedStuffImagineGenerationsQuietCalmWar Of The WorldsWorld War IQuiet LifeGreatest Generation Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.” TryingStuffBoysQuietLimelightGood Boy Author:Cliff Floyd
“The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy - the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent.” WorldStillsEnergyStuffForeverThis WorldMaterialsSourceQuietEternalOppositesIndependentSilentAcknowledgeStillnessQuantumSoupExquisiteFluidResilientCoexistenceMaterial WorldDynamism Author:Deepak Chopra
“I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That's about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How's Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too.” ThinkingMindShowsHouseStuffTvsQuietNewsCampsTv ShowsVansCarpentry Author:Chad Urmston
“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.” IfsKnowsWantI CanHouseStuffCan DoSimpleSpaceMinesWallTerribleQuietEverydayTinyHolesRipVinylQuiet PlaceDorkyTiny Houses Author:Justin Vernon
“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.” CareHouseStuffAnswersPayFansDogGoes OnQuietNormalClothesLettersBillsMeetingsTake CareBoardsMailPacksFilesWashingBoard Meetings Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there's a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindMayStillsStuffQuietDeserveSatisfactionRecognition Author:Abby Brammell
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” PeopleReligionStuffReligiousCommonAtheismQuietAtheistExcellentDelusionSecularAgnosticAtheisticPhilosophy Of ReligionOrganized ReligionReligion GodTheistAnti ReligiousReligious PhilosophyReligion And PoliticsPhilosophy And ReligionMorality And ReligionGod DelusionReligion In SocietyReligious WarsAnti AtheistAnti GodDaily AtheistReligion PoliticsReligion WarReligion And WarKeeping Quiet Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.” StuffQuietMerriment Book:A Dangerous Thing Source: A Dangerous Thing
“We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]” WantStuffSilenceTeachComfortQuietOkayCancerWarmWildernessFraudDisgustingBanquetsNot OkayInside And Outside Author:Anne Lamott