The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...” — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up. — Michel'le Copy Share Image
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I was constantly surprised by how things took shape, whether it was something that was funny or [sharp] or some of these… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
If you are to be successful...you will need to be inspired. You will need to receive revelation. I will give you one… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I always saw myself as this quiet, introspective, thoughtful person. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get quiet all of a sudden. Thats when theres a million & one thing going through my mind — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Its funny because people think I'm quiet but I'm just listening to everyone's convos and figuring out ur weaknesses to destroy u… — Melania Copy Share Image
I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with… — Peter MacKay Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hanael, the Angel of December, will help us enjoy the balance of giving and receiving in many different ways: working and relaxing,… — Margaret Neylon Copy Share Image
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
I did a dance for Comic Relief in 2011, to Bjork's 'It's Oh So Quiet.' I was dressed in this kind of… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things I would definitely go to bat for in Hawaii. I've been all over that stuff. If someone… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
Life is very short. You have to know what is the single most important thing in your life; stay focused on the… — Khoo Swee Chiow Copy Share Image
While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts,… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Milwaukee is really quiet. The people here are really respectful. They can see me in the street, walking on the road. I… — Giannis Antetokounmpo Copy Share Image