Quiet Quotes · Page 43

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

— Saint Augustine

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

— Todd Phillips

I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.

— Jamie Redknapp

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

— Charles Stanley

I have my life on the field, but when I finish that, I want a quiet life with my family.

— David Silva

It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.

— Leslie Moonves

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And…

— Dar Williams

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

— Neil Gaiman

Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself;…

— Casar Jacobson

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

— Thomas Jefferson

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting…

— Martha Beck

I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the…

— Stephen McCauley

The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called…

— John Tyler

1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades…

— Max Brooks

How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots…

— Wallace Stegner

For me it's the hypnotic simplistic reduction of hooks into some form of prayer wheel or something. I really appreciate people who…

— Tim Hecker

There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We…

— J.R. Miller

The Ramones were a great bunch of guys. They were very quiet, very shy. They were a little in awe of the…

— P. J. Soles

...the grace of the Spirit takes possession of the quiet soul, and gives it a taste of the unspeakable good things to…

— Gregory Palamas

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore…

— Samuel Johnson

You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.

— Paul Kagame

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

— Paul Simon

I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.

— Carol Burnett

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

— Andy Grove

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

— Bear Grylls

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.

— Johanna Lindsey

I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.

— Brian Welch

“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was…

— Anonymous

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body…

— Colin Farrell

“it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.”

— mary anne radmacher

“Dan would talk to a fucking trashcan if he thought it would listen. I would live in one to get some peace…

— S. Hart

“...my thoughts reach out like prayers to you - and if you are quiet, you can hear...”

— John Geddes

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

— Mos Def

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with…

— Richard Eyre

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

— Jacqueline Woodson