Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things.

Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpaper. It's very surreal. You're back in your room, and it's dead quiet and really weird.

Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.

Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

That's what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 most boring thing in the world? Silence.

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

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 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.