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"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure." »Thornton
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"Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs" »Spike Milligan
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"Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?" »Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show"
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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." »Sir Barnett Cocks
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"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout." »Alice Walker
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"Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." »William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998
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"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." »William Dement
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"Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it." »Anonymous
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"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable." »Johann von Goethe
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"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked." »Erich Segal
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"If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind." »Don Marquis
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"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten--happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another." »Brenda Ueland
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"I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness." »Brenda Ueland
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"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own." »Michael Konda
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"Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." »Bruce Lee
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"One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides." »Johann von Goethe
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"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony." »William Ellery Channing
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