The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet. — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I hung out with a lot of the riders to get their attitude and they're all like men. Men among boys. They… — Steve Howey Copy Share Image
“Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to… — David Platt Copy Share Image
If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Going into a new school, you don't want to be the new kid and be quiet and shy. You want to stand… — Kyle Kuzma Copy Share Image
Back to my quiet mood,Not answering any inboxes, not on public chat,not commenting on any post.Nothing.Just I dunno. — Jazzy Copy Share Image
In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Maybe a young woman will go see a show by a woman, or starring a woman about women's issues, and that will… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the… — Julie Roberts Copy Share Image
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright… — Bill W Copy Share Image
I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, "Vati, what has happened to… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown... — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in… — Sarah Ellison Copy Share Image
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I don't really have a shell. I'm really not as quiet as people think I am. I'm really not that quiet. But… — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence. — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image