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keep quiet
«I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.»
Author: Anita Loos
(Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Feminism
| Keywords:
brighter, furious, keep quiet, proclaiming, racket, rackets, ruins, The Women, up on
«A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.»
Author: John Major
| Keywords:
keep quiet
«A wild, wick slip she was - but, she had the bonniest eye and sweetest smile, and lightest foot in the parish: and, after all, I believe she meant no harm; for when once she made you cry in good earnest, it seldom happened that she would not keep you company, and oblige you to be quiet that you might comfort her.»
«Just think of a man who wants to sit but cannot sit because he says, I have legs -- how can I sit? Or, think of a man who wants to keep quiet and silent and cannot keep quiet and silent because he says, I have a mind. It is the same.»
«As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Family,
Nations,
Weakness
| Keywords:
chancery, compose, emergent, keep quiet, parliament, subsists
«A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bower, bowers, breathing, increases, keep quiet, loveliness, nothingness, sleeping beauty, Sweet Dreams
«If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
and others, by me, discussions, disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, Every Little Thing, examining, ionizing, keep quiet, livable, on that, persuaded, The God
«It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bubbles, creep, creep in, give in, impending, keep quiet, mentioning, pleasantly, quiets, reference, resigned, steadily