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• Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Giving, Caves, May

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

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• So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Quiet, Life Is, Tweet

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• If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

  Ovid

  Life, Giving Up, Bows

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

  Armand Assante

  Urban, Quiet, Introvert

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• At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Birthday, Age, Aging

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• I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

  Ian Mckellen

  Taken, Hard Work, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

  L. Frank Baum

  Husband, Eye, Nursing

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “Ozma of Oz: American Literature”, p.105, VM eBooks

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• I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Book, Rama

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• I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

  Pawan Kalyan

  Kids, Actors, Quiet

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• If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

  Geraldine Chaplin

  Typical, Steel, Nerves

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• Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Promise, Looks, Quiet

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• We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived very quiet lives. Maybe we don't know a lot about a lot them but what I'm saying is the saints of the 21st century are gonna be regular people - people who've kissed other people. They're gonna be married people.

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, People, Saint

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Sake, Facts

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

  Cillian Murphy

  Party, Book, Home

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• Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

  Michael Caine

  Hey, Want, Quiet

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• It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Interesting, Paper, Quiet

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• I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Wife, Mind

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [116]

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• When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

  Diego Della Valle

  Quiet

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• A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

  A. A. Gill

  Country, Believe, Mean

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• It’s the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

  Steve Farrar

  Hearing, Quiet, Obedience

  Steve Farrar (2006). “King Me: What Every Son Wants and Needs From His Father”, p.171, Moody Publishers

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• If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.

  Pope Francis

  Joy, Wish, Quiet

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.87, SPCK

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• Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Reflection, Quiet, Century

  Whittaker Chambers (1989). “Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959”, Gateway Books

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• I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Thinking, Want, Quiet

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• She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy.Yes, that sounded good.

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, Fall, Memorable

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• And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Writing, Years

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