Top 100 Quotes About Quiet
#1. I promise you that it will be okay," the Duke said, her voice measured, quiet.
"You're good at that," I said. "At, like, saying crazy things in a way that makes me believe them.
John Green
#2. If you are quiet enough, you can hear life itself because your are at total peace with the world.
Marni Klamm
#3. But how do you protect yourself against an enemy you cannot see? How do you combat a thing that only threatens but never really comes? And so it came to pass in those days of quiet that we ceased to fight an outside foe and began to fight ourselves.
Cameron Dokey
#4. I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.
Patsy Kensit
#5. Just because you don't say much doesn't mean people don't notice you. It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.
Amy Efaw
#6. When the mind becomes quiet, you feel nourished. SWAMI CHIDVILASANANDA
Julia Cameron
#7. If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.
Henri Nouwen
#8. By the time she'd finished with him, with a little encouraging pat and a request that he rest quiet like a good lad, there was no point in denying it: Holly Evernight would be the death of him.
Kristen Callihan
#9. The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church.
Jim Fergus
#10. We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Susan L. Taylor
#11. Eighty-two years later, the sound of her crying still haunts me. If only I had paid closer attention to why she was crying instead of simply trying to quiet her. If only I had paid closer attention.
Christina Baker Kline
#12. A breeze flew through, picking up some leaves and swirling them around, the sound like fluttering pages in a quiet library.
Sarah Addison Allen
#13. He liked being big and strong. It gave him an identity. He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own. Nobody until Laura, anyway.
Neil Gaiman
#14. When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#15. The only reason that people 'Choose' to go backwards is because they let their mind take control. Their mind points them in that direction because it's convenient.
If we learn to quiet the mind the soul has a way of painting the bigger picture for taking the right action into growth.
Matthew Donnelly
#16. I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.
Lisa Yuskavage
#17. The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul living in joy and peace.
Bryant McGill
#18. He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.
Martina Cole
#19. In the middle of a long, quiet night I might give my mother a sharp kick. She'll wake, become insomniac, reach for the radio. Cruel sport, I know, but we are both better informed by the morning.
Ian McEwan
#20. the best academic grounding for their son may be quiet, sustained play at home and a kindergarten that emphasizes socialization, play, and the out-of-doors.
Michael Thompson
#21. For me probably the best moment is before I get started in the morning. I get up and I ride my bike before I come into the studio, so there's a lot of peace and quiet right before the day starts and my assistants get here.
Jacob Hashimoto
#22. Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It's scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.
Tina Fey
#23. Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth, yea, doubtless, with many that are now in this congregation, that, it may be, are at ease and quiet, than he is with many of those that are now in the flames of hell. So
Jonathan Edwards
#24. Because Christ doesn't scream to get our attention, we have to find places and times that are quiet. We can look for Him throughout the day in a smile or the sunlight through a cloud. He's there in a baby's face - every time in a baby's face.
Toni Sorenson
#25. My steps were muffled. It was quiet, so quiet that I felt as if I did not walk but instead crawled in silence. The snow covered everthing and I walked above cotton, on silent carpets, on beach sand. Softness is temporary and deceiving. It gently receives you and gently expels you.
Rawi Hage
#26. Until the Quiet Revolution gave women back their bodies and Quebeckers back their lives. It invited the church to leave the womb and restrict itself to the altar. It almost worked.
Louise Penny
#28. The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.
Bernie Mac
#29. It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.
Ruth Rudner
#30. It's wonderful how much you can learn by just being quiet and listening. Sometimes you even learn the truth - or what seems to be the truth.
Avi
#31. Oh, yes he does. He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap," declared Listen.
"You're the most obnoxious little brat I've ever met."
"Both of you be quiet,
Nancy Farmer
#32. Let's all keep quiet, there are times when words serve no purpose, if only I, too, could weep, say everything with tears, not have to speak in order to be understood.
Jose Saramago
#33. There are few things more calming than a quiet room full of books.
Trudy Wallis
#34. I exercise a lot. I enjoy exercising. I switch back and forth with cardio and strength training every other day, and I try to do something active every single day. Other than that, I try to make sure I have enough quiet time to myself to recharge every week as well.
Rhea Seehorn
#35. In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God
Corrie Ten Boom
#36. The sound here was of no sound, of a place holding its breath, an edgy, bitten-back quiet, as if it would at once explode with the color and noise of a great party.
Hanya Yanagihara
#37. I am. I exist. I embrace my inner quiet and let it replenish me.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#38. There's no way that we'll manage to keep quiet. The mansion is packed full of people and I'm not sure if the walls are vampire-soundproof."
He began slithering down my body. "Then don't forget to comment on how big my dick is.
Suzanne Wright
#39. It can be a bit of a hindrance when you walk into a restaurant for a quiet meal and one or two launch into 'psycho, psycho'!
Stuart Pearce
#40. As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John Donne
#41. Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride.
T.R. Wallace
#42. I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
Anne Lamott
#43. Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness.
Henri Nouwen
#44. We'll go to a place that's quiet and dry and talk about precious things.
Douglas Coupland
#45. When it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn. Kat says that they do not go back but are bringing up troops - troops, munitions, and guns.
Erich Maria Remarque
#46. So i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.
Taylor Swift
#47. The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#48. Those who are quiet will always cause riots.
Dr. Dre
#49. For after the Battle comes quiet.
H.G.Wells
#50. Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.
Josh Radnor
#51. Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves
Victoria Magazine
#52. There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
Gabrielle Zevin
#53. He started out by saying that people were describing me as a taciturn and withdrawn person and he wanted to know what I thought. I answered, It's just that I don't have much to say. So I keep quiet.
Albert Camus
#54. The rest of the class looked away. He [Jonas} was a quiet freak, not a zombie. The horde would not protect him. They'd stand by and watch the culling.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#55. The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.
Carl Hiaasen
#56. Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.
William J. Clinton
#57. Iren broke the moment of quiet reflection. "He was a bad captian"
"But a worse bird" said Voleta.
Man, what a thing to say after a dude falls to his death.
Josiah Bancroft
#58. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Joseph Addison
#59. There is such a quiet desperation and chronic sense of dullness to Helena, Montana, which makes it the most socially grotesque and culturally bitter of any of the capital cities.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#60. The good and wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides
#61. Silence came in two categories, quiet and painful, or quiet and comfortable.
Catherine Bybee
#62. Their nineteen-sixties with the flowers in the guns and their summers of love, as if all we'd had was winter, all we'd had was rations. Just very good at keeping quiet, is what we were. We had to be. It was the way. Them with their jet-age.
Ali Smith
#63. It's nice and quiet
but soon again
starts another big riot!
Bjork
#64. Waiting times are growing times and learning times. As you quiet your heart, you enter His peace ... as you sense your weakness, you receive His strength ... as you lay down your will, you hear His calling.
Roy Lessin
#66. That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back to one present and physical whole, whose blood was the proof of her tangibility.
Caroline Kettlewell
#67. Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, 'Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?
Louise Rennison
#68. I'm mostly pretty quiet on the weekends. I either read or visit friends or go hiking or something like that.
Troian Bellisario
#69. The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
Cato The Younger
#70. I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.
Charles M. Blow
#71. When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.
Francine Mathews
#72. Curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and
J.R.R. Tolkien
#73. I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
Saint Basil
#74. I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
Walton Goggins
#75. [Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.
Michael Moore
#76. I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen
#77. What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.
Leo Tolstoy
#78. Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#79. I expected as much from you, girl," said Caul. "You're so typical of ymbryne-raised peculiars: no ambition, and no sense at all but one of entitlement. Quiet yourself, I am speaking to the male.
Ransom Riggs
#80. Go find someone who will care for ye good, to sit quiet by yore side at the fire, an' if he treats ye decent as you hoped he would, you'll have all that your heart can desire.
Brian Jacques
#81. As electricity is made up of positive and negative current - so is human life a system of attraction and repulsion. - Turn off the current if you want quiet. - Yes, but where is the switch?
Nanamoli Thera
#82. I am not as strong as my words pretend to be. Not
as quiet as these caesuras promise. This heart is a patchwork quilt of people
that leave different shades of blue inside of me.
Shinji Moon
#83. The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
#84. She dropped her head, touching his forehead with hers, and rolled her hips, not bothering or not able to keep quiet her sweet little mewl of pleasure. Her heat seeped into him, trapping him in the moment...
Avery Flynn
#85. Rather was it not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a wearisome anxiety to find out how to make the most of them? Where was the quiet, where the promised rest?
Charles Lamb
#86. When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.
Elif Shafak
#87. After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
Henry Miller
#88. The waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.
Julia Child
#89. Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
Bernie Siegel
#90. Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.
Luther Standing Bear
#91. He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross,
Clearly used to silence and an armchair:
Tonight the wife and children will be quiet
At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.
Seamus Heaney
#92. Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.
Richard Brautigan
#93. ( ... ) sensation I've never felt before, bites of cold, hard steel that definitely didn't come with the birthday package. He's pierced. Holy shit. it's always the quiet ones, isn't it?
C.M. Stunich
#95. I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
Bell Hooks
#96. In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.
David Amram
#97. He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own.
Neil Gaiman
#98. Then all was quiet save only for the low voices of those that talked together, ... , and saving, also, for the mellow snoring of Friar Tuck, who enjoyed his sleep with a noise as of one sawing soft wood very slowly.
Howard Pyle
#99. It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.
Chuck Palahniuk
