“Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.”
Anna Kavan (1901–1968) British artist
“Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.”
Anna Kavan (1901–1968) British artist
“Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
“In the quiet ache of the evening, Alobar listened to his calluses grow.”
Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
Trenton Lee Stewart book The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
Julia Cameron book The Right to Write
Source: The Right to Write (1998)
“I have always done my best to keep my young men quiet, but some of them will not listen.”
Black Kettle (1803–1868) Leader of the Southern Cheyenne
As quoted in "Notes Among the Indians", Putnam's Magazine (October 1869), p. 476
Context: I always feel well while I am among these friends of mine, the Witchitas, Wacoes, and affiliated bands, and I never feel afraid to go among the white men here, because I know them to be my friends also. … I come from a point on the Washita River, about one day's ride from Antelope Hills. Near me there are over one hundred lodges of my tribe, only a part of them are my followers. I have always done my best to keep my young men quiet, but some of them will not listen. When recently north of the Arkansas, some of them were fired upon, and then the war began. I have not since been able to keep my young men at home.