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Stay Quiet Quotes

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
- Walter Bagehot

When you're in love you don't have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don't have to move an inch.
- Charles Baxter

I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
- Blaise Pascal

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?
- Loretta Chase

Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.'
He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

I am the dinosaur of love. Specifically, I am a pterodactyl, and you are my silent "p." Stay quiet woman!
- Jarod Kintz

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower.
So the nightbirds will start singing.
- Rumi

I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.
- Elin Stebbins Waldal

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