Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

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

Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

Be quiet, or I swear to God I'll take you right here

Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Deep rivers run quiet.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

Don't judge me because I'm quiet. No one plans a murder out loud.

"Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

...even the donkeys were quiet.

Do whatever you must, Karigan," he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, "to come back. You must come back. To me." ~King Zachary

Each life needs its own quiet place.

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.

Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick Commanded to be well." And there are totalitarian insinuations to back this up if its appeal should fail.

Dreamlike sequencing is perhaps one of João Gilberto Noll's most remarkable triumphs in Quiet Creature on the Corner. I translated the novel and still it remains a mystery as to how exactly how this works. Noll thinks more like an experimental filmmaker than a novelist.

Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing. It's so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I'm producing something. I'm being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.