Quiet Lies Quotes

#1. People who were too outgoing made her suspicious. She couldn't help but presume that all the loud noise was created to hide quiet lies.

Chris Pavone

#2. We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. How silent lies the world
Within fair twilight furled,
Bringing such sweet relief!
A quiet room resembling,
Where, without fear or trembling,
You sleep away day's grief.

Matthias Claudius

#5. You're telling me I'm being attacked by a bunch of goddamned queers?

Brandon Shire

#6. I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

Angelina Jolie

#7. A bug lies in quiet repose;
when he passed no one knows.
Did he suffer, was he pained?
Before he died, was knowledge gained?
Were all life's pressures much too great.To put upon so small a weight?
Although not one for pessimism,
I think he died of journalism!

Nikhil Sharda

#8. Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

Jack Kornfield

#9. Beneath the cacophony of sound generated by our world lies the quiet whisper of universal intelligence. Allow it to be heard ...

Simon Boylan

#10. No secrets, no longing, no desperate hoping
Just reach out and grab from a world cracked open.

David Rakoff

#11. Last summer I spent almost an hour blowing dandelions off their stems towards him, so that he had a chance to wish for everything he wanted.

Helen Oyeyemi

#12. I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet
and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

William John Locke

#13. I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

Tamsin Greig

#14. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#15. Rain was falling, quiet rain, penetrating, like thick fog. You know, the terrible rain that rubs out the hours, that lies outside of time, in the eternity of sadness that no longer dares to name itself, autumn rain that erases even the memory of a possible return of summer. It was raining like that.

Marie Bronsard

#16. We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.

Michael Jackson

#17. A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Tom Rachman

#18. Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.

H. Emilie Cady

#19. Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

Stephen Gillers

#20. She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.

Harlan Ellison