Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough.

The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible. I don’t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them.

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.

The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

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

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

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

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 holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

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

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

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

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

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 mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

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

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

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

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

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

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

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

The noonday quiet holds the hill.

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.

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

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

The quiet people just do their work.

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

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

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