Quiet Quotes · Page 54

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too…

— Beyonce Knowles

“Anything for you, Dru. And I mean it. Now, be quiet and let me concentrate.”

— Lili St. Crow

I was a shy kid, wasn't necessarily an extrovert, but I couldn't help doing voices.

— Bill Irwin

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

— Adyashanti

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

— Andrew Murray

“if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves”

— Jodi Picoult

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

— Stephen Mitchell

I was a shy kid but also very mischievous. Because I looked super innocent, no one could really call me out on…

— K. L. Rahul

A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled…

— Robert J. Sawyer

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the…

— Marilynne Robinson

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet…

— Ndamukong Suh

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with…

— Bessie Head

“Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that…

— Anne Rice

In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come…

— A. A. Milne

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close…

— Anonymous

And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success!…

— Nigel Farage

In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the…

— Mooji

My job is simply to proclaim the Gospel, and to let the Spirit of God apply in the individual hearts. When I…

— Billy Graham

There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to…

— James Norton

“Yes I might have been quiet and shy, the kind of person who did my best to keep my head down just…

— Danielle Paige

When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make…

— Orhan Pamuk

No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get there.…

— Mario Williams

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often…

— Margaret Wise Brown

Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Many people in the intellectual elite are very scared of shouting. They insist on very quiet murmurs.

— Alain de Botton

Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted. We should all learn just to be quiet at times.

— Hussein Nishah

“In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.”

— Jasper Fforde

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

— James Russell Lowell

I've always been shy, I was a quiet child. I didn't start speaking until uh, last year.

— Craig Nicholls

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

— Isaiah Berlin

I think your mouth should be quiet because it never tells the truth.

— Broken Soul

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

— Anne Rice

I was a shy kid, I would never ask for what I wanted. I would go out of my way to avoid…

— Josh Taylor

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's…

— Adam Derek Scott

The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.

— Penny Junor

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

— Rafael Nadal

Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done.

— Celia Thaxter

I live a quiet daytime life. I walk everywhere. I lie down. I wash socks. I fry an egg.

— Pete Burns