Quiet As Kept Quotes

#1. But then July accepted it and never scolded back, so perhaps that was the way of the world: women scolded, and men kept quiet and stayed out of the way as much as possible.

Larry McMurtry

#2. Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

Martin Luther

#3. We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#4. Confessing I didn't, I scribbled the directions on the notepad I always kept by the phone. I hung up and my feet were already on the floor as adrenaline hit my nerves like espresso. The house was quiet. I grabbed my black medical bag, scuffed and worn from years of use. The

Patricia Cornwell

#5. As soon as the engagement was announced, the Pack Clans converged and shot the idea of a quiet ceremony out of the water and then kept firing at it until it stopped convulsing and died.

Ilona Andrews

#6. Now whenever Franny or Jim spoke to someone who kept a car in Manhattan, they reacted with quiet horror, like people who'd been subjected to the rantings of a mentally ill person at a cocktail party.

Emma Straub

#7. Joy was worn like a new suit of clothes on people. You could see it on every inch of them, from their step to their stare. But sadness and loss were hidden, kept quiet under composure and the shelter of daily activity.

J.R. Ward

#8. I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.

Rick Wakeman

#9. It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.

Melissa De La Cruz

#10. During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun
setting in the distance, it was
somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just
kept moving toward that
horizon.

Sarah Dessen

#11. I didn't, because the idea of apologizing felt inadequate. I wasn't sure that I was ready to be forgiven. So I kept quiet and swallowed my guilt.

Penny Reid

#12. Poor Nate was always on the verge of saying how he really felt, but he didn't want to make a scene or say something he might regret later. Instead, he kept quiet and let other people steer the boat, while he laid back and enjoyed the steady rocking of the waves.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#13. Alice More: As for understanding, I understand that you are the best man that I ever met,
or am likely to;
And, if you go ... Well, God knows why I suppose.
Though as God's my witness God's kept deadly quiet about it!

Robert Bolt

#14. I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.

Tori Kelly

#15. I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

Jessica Hahn

#16. We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.

Sakyong Mipham

#17. Bring Down The Walls
I will bring down the walls
that surround me today.
I will no longer be kept quiet
Meek enough to drown today ...

Muse

#18. It's stupid, but I kept thinking I owed it to her
to Anne Frank, I mean
because she was dead and I wasn't, because she had stayed quiet and kept the blind drawn and done everything right and still died ...

John Green

#19. It was a quiet street - people kept themselves to themselves. It

Ian Rankin

#20. So I kept talking because nothing gets me going like knowing I should shut up. Oh, I should be quiet and full of potential like all those still flowers, but I know I am a weed and I've got to blow my seeds around the garden.

Michelle Tea

#21. I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

George Harrison

#22. When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."

Ron Jaworski

#23. I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

Pete Cashmore

#24. I sat down quietly in a corner with my glass of port, and kept quiet while Simon questioned Jamie once again about Charles Stuart's situation and prospects.

Diana Gabaldon

#25. I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#26. I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#27. When wars end, all the shit comes tumbling out. People talk, point fingers at each other, reveal things they've kept quiet for years.

Karen Traviss

#28. I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.

Clare Balding

#29. Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do?

Caryl Churchill

#30. Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.

Andrew Rosenthal

#31. Because partisanship has made anything fair, which honor and propriety might once have kept quiet.

Stephanie Dray

#32. If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet ... maybe we could understand something.

Federico Fellini

#33. In school, I didn't speak up often in class. I was never the person to yell out an answer. If I knew it, I might whisper it to my buddy and let him answer. I kept quiet.

Lyle Lovett

#34. It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

G.K. Chesterton

#35. I've always been pretty much a quiet person. When I was little, I got picked on a lot. After I went through all that, I pretty much kept to myself.

Terrell Owens

#36. There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

Simon Wiesenthal

#37. You don't get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn't shout "Irish Power", "Jew Power", [or] "Italian Power". They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.

Whitney M. Young

#38. If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no ...

Jennifer Crusie

#39. a still water that ran deep." I still don't know what she meant by that, except quiet people did exude some illusion of mystery that kept you wondering just what they really were beneath the surface.

V.C. Andrews

#40. He'd always found that he learned more if he kept quiet.

Cinda Williams Chima

#41. Volatile repose. The words just kept occurring to me. It was a perfect description of me -quiet, calm, but on the edge of something vast and dark and dangerous and explosive.

Katherine Ewell

#42. I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

Anita Loos

#43. For more than five years, I'd made little progress with my efforts at quiet diplomacy - for one thing, the Soviet leaders kept dying on me.

Ronald Reagan

#44. He is Monroe's son." I pointed at Ren. "And he's your best hope to win this war." "He's what?" Shay's voice was dead quiet. I'm what?" Ren kept his own voice to a whisper, but the look he'd thrown me was a bit alarmed.

Andrea Cremer

#45. I dare say a good many ... would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief, but I'm afraid I'm not much good at that.

Richard Adams

#46. Mom always got me to school and the driving range while Dad was working. She also kept me quiet and humble. Both of them taught me to let my golf do the talking.

Rickie Fowler