Hushing Quotes

#1. They tell you sex has become a mess because it was hushed up. But for the last twenty years it has not been hushed up. It has been chattered about all day long. Yet it is still in a mess. If hushing up had been the cause of the trouble, ventilation would have set it right.

C.S. Lewis

#2. The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#3. A soft hushing sound, like fingernails scratching down an endless sheet of paper.

James S.A. Corey

#4. I think about the sound the waves made against the walls of the lifeboat. A hushing sort of whisper that I'd eventually found comforting.
It had become, for me, the reckoning of death.

Carrie Ryan

#5. The coverlet warmed her legs. The firelight wobbled over the pages. Maelyn sank into the world the words wrapped around her, hushing everything that hurt, and seeping tranquility right down to her toes. She was home.

Anita Valle

#6. When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.

Robert Bridges

#7. Voices beyond my ability to measure suddenly hushing all at once.

Cameron Dokey

#8. Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up

Stephen Hawking

#9. If you aren't breaking tackles, you aren't doing anything.

Priest Holmes

#10. And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

Pierre Bonnard

#11. Did you see the way he glared at me? It wasn't with daggers, Cait, it was fists. That fine piece of man-meat has staked a claim on you and he's going to pummel anyone who stands in his way, including my gay ass. My face can't handle that. After tonight, you're on your own.

Abby Niles

#12. If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?

Nhat Hanh

#13. Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

Chris Rock

#14. Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

James Stephens

#15. Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.

James Wright

#16. I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as rock around me.

Lucy Christopher

#17. It seems the trees can count! They wait until a certain number of warm days have passed, and only then do they trust that all is well and classify the warm phase as spring. But warm days alone do not mean spring has arrived.

Peter Wohlleben

#18. When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

Zoe Kazan