Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

What is reading but silent conversation?

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.

When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

When I write I find a quiet place.

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.

When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

When you speak words that are relevant to people, they automatically shut up and you know you are in the presence of some very magical words. It's a gift when someone can listen and be quiet and not interrupt.

When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.

Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door.

Why can' t everyone just smoke like me? Just gimme a quiet place and lemme roll my weed, where ain't nobody in my business don't nobody gotta know let all your conscious go and blow it by the O

With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves.

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you.

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back.

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

You're in orbit over the Earth. And suddenly it's very, very quiet. It's dramatic. You realize you're floating in the straps in your chair. And you take off your seat belt and float over to the window and look out, and you realize, "I'm not looking at a picture, here." I couldn't process it all. Even if I forget everything else in my life, that will stay with me, burned into my brain until the day I die.

About fireworks? About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant. I imagine you do give Kathy love - in the true sense of the word. Whether or not she is capable of giving it back to you is another question.

Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.