Quiet Quotes
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation...
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[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.
In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and call...
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a...
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Show MoreI love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moo...
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It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down th...
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the o...
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Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that...
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When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no...
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They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without ...
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[John] watched the flames for a while. "I would have to say that I find God in serving His children....
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These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...
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Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who ...
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I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s ...
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be no...
Show MoreNo man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...
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What are you? Do you know? What you are is you're always trying to smooth everything over. What you ...
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I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and t...
Show MoreSummer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure...
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A quiet mind cureth all.
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
This forest silence improves anyone.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One ...
Show MoreIn this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, fro...
Show MoreThese were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to...
Show MoreI'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're ...
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Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctivel...
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My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's...
Show MoreNowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by...
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at ...
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I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon t...
Show MoreI thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need...
Show MoreAll men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
You make me feel too human, Joe. All I want is peace and quiet, not love. I'm a tired old lady, Joe,...
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.
No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
No. Have it here where it is quiet." "You and your quiet", said Brett. "What is it men feel about qu...
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I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ...
Show MoreThe good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow...
Show MoreA high school student wrote to ask, "What was the greatest event in American history?" I can't say. ...
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