Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Lurch's quietness is a result of personal dignity. He appreciates things of quality. His greatest joy is playing Bach on the harpsichord,… — Ted Cassidy Copy Share Image
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your… — Yael Cohen Copy Share Image
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
“One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors.… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer… — William Walton Copy Share Image
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“There are quiet places also in the mind,” he said, meditatively. “But we build bandstand and factories on them. Deliberately—to put a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My times of silence before God are very important to me now. I put everything else down, every word away, and I… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I sit here and there, seeking that moment of quietness, that moment of emotionless rejoicing in the fullness of nothingness. Sometimes… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
