Quiet Quotes

I’d like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.

Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

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.

I really love peace and quiet.

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

Quiet! I'm expressing myself!

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

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.

In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment

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.

I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

When I feel strongly about something, I'm not so quiet.

I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I'd love to be able to sleep. I'll probably not rest. I have no need for all this. Help me, Lord.

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.