Quiet People Strength Quotes

#1. Like her mother Lauren used to say, books were solid proof that ordinary people were capable of creating magic.

Melissa Hill

#2. I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You're like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't seen Ricky on the sidewalk!"

Mitch Hedberg

#3. Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.

Shana Alexander

#4. I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Michelle Obama

#5. What's the difference between Darling Cruel, the wind, and a vacuum? A vacuum only sucks. The wind only blows. But Darling sucks, blows, and swallows.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. If anybody ever shuts you in Indiana ... and you don't at least write some unconstrained something or other, I give up hope for your salvation.

Ezra Pound

#7. All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.

Tracy Lawrence

#8. Actually, I'd better look that thing up and find out what it's called. I'm pretty sure it has a name." "Everything has a name!" "Yes, I guess that's right.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. Through my questions, you will learn to teach yourselves.

John Jay Osborn Jr.

#10. Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Anna Wintour

#11. You don't put demands on people and you never say anything negative
ever. So many people suck the life out of everyone they're around, but you don't do that. You give people strength just by being you.

Matthew Quick

#12. Their suburbia house in Brentwood was how she referred to the house when we bought it, a twelve-year-old establishing that it was not her decision, not her taste, a child claiming the distance all children imagine themselves to need.

Joan Didion

#13. You can only change that which you love.

Silvia Hartmann

#14. I remember having friends in high school that did the theater department stuff, and I always wanted to try it but never had the guts to. I was the class clown but could never really build up the courage to try it. I took one acting class and really enjoyed it.

Robert Buckley

#15. Some people speak a lot, but have very little to say. Some people speak very little, but have very much to say.

Mark Hampton

#16. The hunter rules over the hunted.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.

April Genevieve Tucholke