Quiet Quotes

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.

Then once you've got that dream in mind please dream a million more and not a million quiet dreams, a million dreams that roar!

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Peace and quiet govern the world.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

Music makes a quiet mind.

I was pretty quiet as a child.

In quiet moments, I love to read.

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

Silence is safer than speech.

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

Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

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

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

I always get very calm with baseball.

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.