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Familiar Quotations

Stillness

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.–Anonymous

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.–Noam Chomsky

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.–Frank Tebbets

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.–Gore Vidal

Stillness – "Peace"

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.–Anonymous

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.–Anonymous

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.–Ariel and William Durant

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.–Henry Van Dyke

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.–Dwight Eisenhower

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.–Gersonides

• Preface vi
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Stillness 1
• Stillness – "Peace" 1
• Stillness – "Silence" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Stillness 3
• Stillness – "Absolute" 12
• Stillness – "Air" 13
• Stillness – "Around" 15
• Stillness – "Beauty" 15
• Stillness – "Black" 16
• Stillness – "Break" 17
• Stillness – "Breath" 17
• Stillness – "Breathless" 18
• Stillness – "Broke" 18
• Stillness – "Brooded" 21
• Stillness – "Catch" 21
• Stillness – "Close" 21
• Stillness – "Cold" 22
• Stillness – "Came" 23
• Stillness – "Completely" 26
• Stillness – "Country" 26
• Stillness – "Cry" 27
• Stillness – "Dark" 27
• Stillness – "Day" 29
• Stillness – "Dead" 31
• Stillness – "Death" 32
• Stillness – "Deep" 32
• Stillness – "Distance" 34
• Stillness – "Died" 35
• Stillness – "Ears" 35
• Stillness – "Earlier" 36
• Stillness – "Evenings" 36
• Stillness – "Everything" 37
• Stillness – "Everywhere" 38
• Stillness – "Eyes" 38
• Stillness – "Fall" 39
• Stillness – "Far" 40
• Stillness – "Felt" 41
• Stillness – "Few" 42
• Stillness – "Finding" 43
• Stillness – "Gloom" 43
• Stillness – "Go" 44
• Stillness – "Gone" 44
• Stillness – "Great" 45
• Stillness – "Hands" 47
• Stillness – "Head" 48
• Stillness – "Heard" 49
• Stillness – "Heart" 51
• Stillness – "Horses" 53
• Stillness – "Hours" 53
• Stillness – "House" 55
• Stillness – "Leaves" 57
• Stillness – "Life" 58
• Stillness – "Listened" 59
• Stillness – "Little" 59
• Stillness – "Look" 61
• Stillness – "Loud" 63
• Stillness – "Make" 64
• Stillness – "Men" 65
• Stillness – "Minutes" 67
• Stillness – "Moments" 67
• Stillness – "Moon" 69
• Stillness – "Morning" 70
• Stillness – "Nights" 70
• Stillness – "Nothing" 74
• Stillness – "Old" 75
• Stillness – "Once" 76
• Stillness – "Opened" 77
• Stillness – "Pause" 77
• Stillness – "Perfect" 78
• Stillness – "Place" 79
• Stillness – "Presently" 81
• Stillness – "Quietly" 81
• Stillness – "Reigns" 83
• Stillness – "Roar" 84
• Stillness – "Room" 84
• Stillness – "Rose" 85
• Stillness – "Scenery" 86
• Stillness – "Second" 86
• Stillness – "Sense" 86
• Stillness – "Shadow" 87
• Stillness – "Sight" 88
• Stillness – "Sign" 88
• Stillness – "Sleeping" 89
• Stillness – "Soft" 89
• Stillness – "Soon" 90
• Stillness – "Soul" 91
• Stillness – "Sound" 91
• Stillness – "Spirit" 97
• Stillness – "Storm" 97
• Stillness – "Strange" 98
• Stillness – "Talk" 98
• Stillness – "Things" 99
• Stillness – "Thoughts" 100
• Stillness – "Thus" 100
• Stillness – "Tumult" 101
• Stillness – "Voice" 102
• Stillness – "Waited" 103
• Stillness – "Warm" 104
• Stillness – "Water" 104
• Stillness – "Wave" 105
• Stillness – "White" 106
• Stillness – "Wind" 107
• Stillness – "Words" 107
• Stillness – "Work" 109
• Stillness – "World" 109
• Nonfiction Usage 111
• Song Title Usage 111
• Journalism Usage 111
• Legal Usage 112
• Patent Usage 112
• Bibliographic Usage 112
• Encyclopedic Usage 122
• Lexicographic Usage 128
• Index 144