Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.

The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

The noonday quiet holds the hill.

The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

The quiet people just do their work.

Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

There are few takers for the quiet heart.

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

There is real comfort in being quiet.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

There’s a certain relationship which we have to have with our inner functioning. That of respect and that of wonder. When we are quiet enough and positive enough that we can follow these fine indications inside which lead us to more functioning, we will find out what precious abilities we have which we usually don’t use.

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

The sight of home looks best after you've traveled hundreds of miles to get away from it.

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

There's just no quiet in Vegas.