Best 822 quotes in «quiet quotes» category

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.

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.

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

Each life needs its own quiet place.

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

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

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.

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.

...even the donkeys were quiet.

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.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

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

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

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

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.

For me probably the best moment is before I get started in the morning. I get up and I ride my bike before I come into the studio, so there's a lot of peace and quiet right before the day starts and my assistants get here.

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

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.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.

For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.

For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.

God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.

God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.

Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on peace, poise, security and divine guidance and your mind will be productive of happiness.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.