"Quietness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grow,—the Creative Law of Life will do that. It is for this reason that the Bible gives us such injunctions as "Study to be quiet" (1 Thess. iv, 11). "He that believeth shall not make haste" (Is. xxviii, 16). "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength" (Is. xxx, 15). To make ourselves anxious as to whether the Word we have planted will fructify is just to dig it up again, and then of course ...
— The Law and the Word • Thomas Troward
... quietness on deck: some of the late hands having their tea below, where one or two had already turned in to gain a few winks of sleep before being called on duty to keep the first watch. Others again, as I've already said, where chatting and yarning on the fo'c's'le, ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson
... up Broadway, which on Sunday presents a striking contrast in its quietness to the noise and confusion of ordinary week-days, as far as Union Square, then turned down Fourteenth Street, which brought ...
— Ragged Dick - Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks • Horatio Alger
... can't tell you, Dick? If—if it's just an instinct that says, Wait? We've been too headlong as it is. I can't—I daren't—go on at this pace." She was almost tearful. "I must have a little breathing-space indeed. I came here for peace and quietness, as you know." ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... sound broke the quietness of all into a confusion of noises. Dong! Dong!—it was the great alarm-bell ...
— Otto of the Silver Hand • Howard Pyle
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