Quotes About Not Knowing When To Shut Up

#1. Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults.

Boy George

#2. We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen.
Nothing did.
"This isn't good," Quen said.
I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.

Kim Harrison

#3. Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Wally Lamb

#4. Knowing he was suffering pained me. That's the way love tangles you up. I couldn't stop loving him, and couldn't shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him - but I also didn't have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.

Paula McLain

#5. Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#6. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

Malcolm Forbes

#7. I'd done two years' worth of extra work, and all my friends who I would go on auditions with went to school for acting. These were kids who knew when they were 14 years old that this was what they wanted to do with their lives, and they prepared for it, and they're getting canned at every audition.

Michelle Rodriguez

#8. A key to life is knowing what to ignore and when to shut up.

Lisa Bedrick

#9. I just want him to shut up and stop talking like this. I just want him to get up and follow me out of here. I just want to be back at Watford in our room, knowing he's there, and that he isn't hurting anyone, and no one is hurting him.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. By the rules of fiction, with which life to be credible must comply, he was as a character "impossible" - each time they met, for instance, he showed no shred or trace of having been continuous since they last met.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. So much of being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

Emma Straub

#12. I would show her I wasn't a bit of cobweb in the corner, something to be wiped or straightened, but a rival worth her notice. I would learn her ways and habits, and track her closely until I knew what she was and how to best her, and what precisely it would take to steal my good life back.

Paula McLain

#13. Be like the single blade of grass. For she too, has been trampled on, mowed down, and hit with such bitterly cold stretches that she had to shut down to survive. Yet still she stands upright with dignity, knowing that she endures, and still she dances with the wind.

Sandra Kring

#14. So I kept talking because nothing gets me going like knowing I should shut up. Oh, I should be quiet and full of potential like all those still flowers, but I know I am a weed and I've got to blow my seeds around the garden.

Michelle Tea

#15. We don't have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf ... I'm a little bit too casual probably about a lot of things, but you can't force good play. Good play comes from good hard work and actually being prepared to play, not being forced to play.

Jack Nicklaus

#16. Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

N. T. Wright

#17. You gotta know it before you move on. You gotta recognize yourself. Understand the lessons. If you cain't make no sense of it, well then, what use was it?

Eric Arvin

#18. Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul.
"At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary

Sharon K. Garner

#19. As my eyes slide shut,I'm thinking about second chances,knowing that the one I wished for tonight is lying next to me.

Rebecca Donovan

#20. Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

#21. The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.

Antonio Porchia

#22. Part of being friends with someone is knowing when to speak your mind and when to shut the hell up.

Christine Pope

#23. I declare that I am a bachelor.

Julian Eltinge

#24. When I start a film, I can sort of shut my eyes, sit somewhere quiet and imagine the movie finished. I can imagine the camera angles, I can even imagine the type of music. Without knowing the tune, I can imagine the type of music it needs to be.

Peter Jackson

#25. An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Eric Clapton

#26. For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last time, he said "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about.

A.A. Milne

#27. That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

D.H. Lawrence

#28. You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

Johnny Cash

#29. As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.

Denis Waitley

#30. Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

Sophia Amoruso

#31. Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.

Chris Rock

#32. His mom always said that 90 percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#33. To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

Simone Weil

#34. Your piety is worthless unless it leads you to wish that the same mercy which has been extended to you may bless the whole world.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon