Michael Finkel

My advice for telling someone else's story is to try not to consciously bend the story in any particular direction - to listen with an open mind, to include the good with the bad, to attempt to quell one's biases and allow the person you're writing about to emerge as wholly as possible, warts and all.

American Journalist

Oliver Stark

I think our first scene was us arguing, and nobody wants to argue with Angela Bassett, but the thing about it was that all of the nerves I had going into it were immediately kind of quelled as soon as I got to the set. Becasue she's not Angela Bassett, she's just Angela Bassett.

British Actor

Thomas Francis Meagher

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

Irish Soldier

Perfume Genius

I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some loneliness in people. I really needed that when I listened to music growing up and even now, so I don't mind that sense of duty.

American Musician

Calamity Jane

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

American Celebrity

Nagarjuna

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Indian Philosopher

Chris Murphy

You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

American Politician

Karl Marx

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

German Philosopher

Molly Antopol

One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.

American Writer

John Dryden

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

English Poet

Often implies a decisive or forceful end to a conflict or disorder.

Forceful Action

Typically used to describe actions by those in power, like governments or police.

Authority Usage

May carry a negative connotation, suggesting oppressive measures.

Negative Emotion

Used when someone is trying to calm a strong emotion or fear within themselves or others.

Emotional Relief

While it can relate to physical discomfort, it's also about emotional states.

Not Only Physical

Conveys the internal effort to control or decrease intense feelings.

Inner Struggle

 quell let's say disturbances on the ground when people can't get water and so I do think that as we talk about this issue of urbanization and we are going to see more farmers markets more growing of crops locally somebody said they were going to be growing more crops on building roofs and all that things it's

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 and our fight-or-flight instincts were in full effect. For my part, I was pissed off that instead of being our brother and sister's keeper, my adopted country was being divided by race and religion. I wanted our local Muslim community to do something to quell that hate,

It takes a community to...

 to quell old conflicts between their families and strengthen Alexios’s reign. Fortunately, Anna and Nikephoros ended up sharing many intellectual interests, hosting and debating the leading scholars of the day. Meanwhile, Alexios’s military excursions

Quell