Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

a quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia.

As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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'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.

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.

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

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

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

...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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

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

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

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

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