Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

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

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.

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.

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

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.

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.

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.

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

Deep rivers run quiet.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

...even the donkeys were quiet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

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

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

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

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Excuse me, but I believe you have my lady,” one of them said in a quiet, deep voice that sent veritable chills down George’s spine. Harry.

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

For me probably the best moment is before I get started in the morning. I get up and I ride my bike before I come into the studio, so there's a lot of peace and quiet right before the day starts and my assistants get here.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.