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Keep Quiet Quotes

That,' he confessed aloud, 'was as ludicrous a case of mutual ineptitude as the gods of slapstick ever engineered. We both deserve to be tickled to death by small green centipedes. Well... if you keep quiet about it, I will.
- Poul Anderson

They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth. Rachel
- Katherine Applegate

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
- Booker T Washington

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.
- Max Brooks

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
- Stephen Chbosky

He's a wallflower." And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me.
"You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
- Stephen Chbosky

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
- Malcolm De Chazal

Sometimes the contradictions in their lives are so intense they seem manufactured for teaching life lessons, but it's hard to keep up with what you're supposed to be learning in that terrible moment between defiance and despair when all your energy is going into figuring out why it took so long to name the thing that's driving you crazy. At those moments, the best I can do is keep quiet and say a little prayer, which is what I did.
- Pearl Cleage

Get over it,' Sherlock said, and looked at her husband. 'No, no, bad dog, keep quiet.
- Catherine Coulter

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.
- Mos Def

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
- Don Delillo

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.
- Philip K Dick

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.
- Jennifer Donnelly

Fucking shut up, you whining cow, you didn't mind spending the money!' yelled Simon, his jaw jutting again; and Andrew wanted to roar at his mother to stay silent: she blabbed when any idiot could have told her she should keep quiet, and she kept quiet when she might have done good by speaking out; she never learned, she never saw any of it coming.
- J K Rowling

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
- Napoleon Hill

A brick, with its rigid conformity, could be used as a model for how the government wants its citizens to be treated. Every brick in this country is equal, and as such they should be identical, and line up in a straight line and keep quiet. And they should never, ever, question the bricklayers. Bricks do not talk back.
- Jarod Kintz

When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.
- Mindy Kaling

A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.
- Walter Moers

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because theres no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but were still living
the book.
- Daniel Pennac

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
- John C Ransom

Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet
about us,
half out of shame perhaps, half out of
some secret hope.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
- Dennis Rodman

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
- Tony Snow

so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.
- Taylor Swift

One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.
- Hunter Tylo

Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.
- Ned Vizzini

I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.
- Brian Welch

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
- Peter Welch

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