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Until the Palestinians can show that they can act against the terrorist groups, there is going to be a consensus not to give more. If things are quiet for six months then we could begin to see action.

We're sort of quiet out here, doing our thing. But we are ... going to be in a position to claim the title of third commercial airport for Chicago.

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

We're not an uptight bunch. We just like to have fun. A lot of coaches like the team to be quiet and focused before a game. The way we focus is to clown around. We think about the task at hand. But we don't worry. We like to have fun, study and practice hard.

We're back to square one. Now we need time to regain calm. Our people need a quiet life and to make a living.

With the physical trade still quiet because of the summer slowdown, the markets seem to be at the whim of the funds, so more exogenous issues such as the equities, oil, bonds and the dollar, or any other event that impacts the funds, needs to be watched closely.

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

We're seeing some profit-taking of blue chips after Friday's gains but generally the market is very quiet ahead of the release of more U.S. economic data tonight and an expected interest rate hike tomorrow.

We're seeing quiet confidence building on a month-to-month basis. Good people are getting harder to find, and you have to make sure that you pay them appropriately.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

Acceptance is a small quiet room.

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

A grave is such a quiet place.

I really love peace and quiet.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

The world is quiet here.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

What we're doing is dispelling that stereotype as libraries being this place where it's very quiet and you have to tip-toe around.

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

There are some players that have a quiet confidence in what they can do. I believe Alex has that confidence. ... He believes in himself. He knows he has paid the price to properly prepare for the opportunity.

We tried to bring in both the architecture and the wrought-iron. We wanted a look of restrained, quiet opulence.

We didn't talk about it. It was real quiet in the dugout.

When it was time to get the job done and win games, he was right there. Kind of a quiet - not a mean streak - but that mentality of business first, fun later when you're off the ice.

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

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.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

The protests must be pursued everywhere. Bush and Rice should keep quiet and we tell them that we will not forgive those who offend our Prophet.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.

We might be able to find ways that we can mitigate this. And we should be doing this in quiet time before a pandemic rather than under pressure should one erupt.

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease.

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

(When thinking about the Ruth character) I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.

There are other galaxies that are likely to be the same size as this one that have black holes of similar mass. However, their black holes are quiet -- they're not putting out the large amounts of energy we see in this one. We're left to wonder just why this one is so active.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Lots of us bought houses here because we thought all of this would be housing. It's a good neighborhood, it's quiet and now you want to add 90 to 100 apartments to it. If there's anything we can do to buy time, please let us do so.

Screaming is fine... It's the words. If you can avoid saying certain phrases and words... Just try to keep it as quiet as possible. Of course you're going to groan and yell. It hurts. Just keep it to a minimum.

So many people have approached me and said, 'Can I do a musical of John,' ... It's a very simple idea, you know - wow, a musical of John! But I've said no. This time, I said yes, because I liked the idea of having these different actors playing John. Because in the years after John's passing, John has transformed into something else. People in Asia think of him as their hero. People in Africa think of him as their hero. He was a hero for the whole world, and not just a white hero. So it's great to have a black performer singing as John. For me, this play is a revolution, a quiet revolution.

She's that quiet force on a team. Her presence never shows up in statistics as much as we felt it on the court. I think she was one of the top defenders in the state.

She started off really quiet and we all yelled at her for it. We told her she had to speak up more and hang out with us more. We told her it would make us a better team.

She was a frail, beautiful, unassuming woman ... She always had a quiet insistence on the rightness of what she was doing.

She took on more of a leadership role as a senior. She was a quiet kid, not very talkative in the past, who led by example. This year she was more vocal. As she matured she was more comfortable speaking out.

She was quiet and shy ... she was a very serious person,

She was a quiet revolutionary on behalf of all women,

She was a quiet person, stern but fair. When she walked into a room, she would get your attention without saying a word.

She's a surprise. She's so quiet and so soft spoken. I think this is bringing her out of her shell.

She's a real quiet kid, but she ignites us by getting us going. The rest of the kids, as soon as they see her get on they know, done deal, she's going to score, and who's going to be next? It's that kind of feeling we get when she gets on.

She's one of the better blockers, hitters, servers, all-around. She's a quiet leader, ... She's developed a good set of hands and she's very smart at the net.

She seems like she's a quiet little passenger. That might not sound like a compliment, but it is to me. She's doing good.

She's always been the heart and soul of the team. She's quiet but shows a lot of leadership and outward expression on the court. She leads by example.

Somebody didn't do this and just keep quiet about it. Somebody knows about it.

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

Since it's a quiet day in economic news, I think retail sales numbers are the big story out there today, and they seem to be a little disappointing, especially clothing store sales.

She possessed a quiet determination. She got what she needed through following the rules. She was very diplomatic.

She just had a very quiet way of speaking, and it really engaged you because she was so soft-spoken; you had to listen carefully. There was a kind of intimacy that you immediately had.

She loves drinking Pepsi all the time! It is no wonder she can't ever be quiet during a game, with all that caffeine she drinks before games.

Mike runs good routes, and he's always making the big play, ... He pulled down a few high balls I threw last week, and made it look like nothing. I've played with some good receivers at UCLA, but Mike is in a class all by himself. He's a real classy, quiet Oregon guy. He just takes care of business.

(Miranda) can't sit quiet for very long, so she'd be talking to somebody.

Much of our quiet time is spent boating and generally loafing at our second home in the 1,000 Islands on the St. Lawrence River.

My job is to get open ... hit the holes, the quiet areas and lull them to sleep. But you can't do that unless you're playing with two guys that are great with the puck.

My life has been nothing special. I am a quiet person who came from a very ordinary, middle-class Negro family.

My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion.

Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything.

Right, girls. Form a circle and start running. You're quiet tonight - for a change.

right before the final runway show taped for (her Bravo style series) Project Runway , and I loved having a quiet minute with Michael.

People will be eyeing $450 as the target. It may not be today. It will be very quiet in the States.

Pharrell's affected everyone through music. To work with someone like that - it's a gift. You ever meet somebody you can learn so much from, and all you have to do is be quiet and watch? That's what it was like. I took in how he moves, speaks, how he creates, the whole nine.

Only if the news from the around the globe remains quiet will selling continue in earnest.

Nevertheless, several of my friends have from time to time tried to induce me to write a concise account of my steel invention in my own quiet way.

On the bus ride down here they were so quiet. It had me concerned because there are so many different personalities I didn't know what that meant. Once the meet started, they showed me it was a quiet intensity.

One of the reasons it seemed like a quiet 37 was his shooting percentage. Unfortunately, we couldn't get him under control.

One of the factors here is what role Yasser Arafat will play. From some of the statements that he has been making immediately, he doesn't seem to be trying to move the Bethlehem situation to a smooth and quiet resolution. Unfortunately he seems to be trying to use it as another excuse to inflame international passions, and I think that Yasser Arafat could be playing a more constructive role in trying to bring this impasse to an end.

I worked out with him because he's a local kid. He's a quiet kid. When told what to do, he'll do it. He reminds me of Erik Averill (a 20th-round selection by the Tigers last year) because he has that changeup.

I work part-time after classes, so I don't get home until late. I really have no time to use the library during the week, when I need it the most. This makes it really hard to get my work done because I need a quiet place to work and my dorm is so noisy.

If we quiet our minds, we can hear the truth discerned by the heart.

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

I'd like to write again with Bob Dylan again. I have some ideas about where I want to go and I'd love to work with him, at least lyrically. It was a really painless writing experience, again I was intimidated and star-struck - in awe of his brilliance and the music that I loved as a kid, the songs of his I did in clubs. When I was in his presence, I was a kid, trying to quiet my mind from this mantra of 'Oh my god this is Bob Dylan!'