Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

Deep rivers run quiet.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 the donkeys were quiet.

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

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

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

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

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.