The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife etc., is sure to be noticed.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

Everyone of us should emulate him. We can all learn from Paul Scholes." [http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/internationals/james-lawton--quiet-scholes-the-half.htmlnt-player-france-fear-most-731769.html]

Here is where the problem started, you see, after sex and this is something we never knew - Ha ha, why would we? Tony "The Mouth" Donato, a guy quieter an inverted Trappist monk, like to talk.

She sat quietly in one corner of the sofa, the end of her sari drawn modestly over her hair. Like the motionless illusion of a madly spinning top, she was staring vacantly into space.

I remember that when we began our friendship, our minds were full of noble thoughts and we often thought of living a quiet life in the mountains.

He was a quiet person, saying only as much as was needed. His thinking was clear and his talk not meaningless but substantive.