Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Jesus," Dante interjected when the heavy quiet in the vehicle seemed endless. "All this touchy feely is making me itchy to kill something. How about we quit jerking each other off and go blow the roof off this mutha?

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Listen...you can hear the colors flowering in the quiet of your soul

Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.

Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

Love is all the small moments. It is what fills the quiet.

Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.

Motion is tranquility.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.

Most Turkish Kurds want a quiet life and improved economic conditions. But the Kurdish regions of Turkey are mountainous; they're ill-favored climatically; they're poor; and there's a limit to what the government can do there without wasting a lot of resources. Developing the south east may mean decamping a large part of its population. But the thing that will improve the lot of the Kurds more than anything else will be the stabilization of Iraq in the first place, because then the Turkish southeast stops being a dead end. It can become a bridge, with trade flowing in both directions.

Movement is tranquility.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

My goodness, there's nothing that feels better than to meditate, than to get quiet, and then to be at peace, and to tell someone you love them.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.

My husband makes me stay totally quiet in movies because otherwise it's [five minutes in] and I go, "Oh, so-and-so did it," and he's like, "OK, I haven't even finished my popcorn and you ruined it for me.