Quiet Quotes

It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

I do go through a mini depression because one minute there are people yelling and screaming for me on stage and the next I'm at home and it's dead quiet. So it takes a while to come down.

Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something.

I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

Acceptance is a small quiet room.

Here's the thing: You rescue us every day in small, quiet ways, so why not in this way? Let us into your mystery, tell us how you would like to be loved, show us how to see you, really see you.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.

Every day, I'll get sent clips via email. I watch them and see if there's something of substance or significance.Some nights are super busy; some nights are quiet.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.

...even the donkeys were quiet.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.

I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.

Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally quiet.

I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.

I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

I'm not the quiet sensitive little guy I was. I can't be. There's just too much after me.

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.

We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.

Quiet down, we don't want to wake the Russians.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

We don’t do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

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.