Hush Quotes

121 Hush quotes by 113 unique authors

Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now… — J. C. Hutchins
The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the… — Charles Dickens
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. — A. P. Herbert
And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never… — Clive Barker
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer… — Edith Wharton
...this pause of rest, This morning hush before the sun. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by. — Fred Allen
There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is… — Winston Churchill
Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it… — James Russell Lowell
The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now,… — Hal Borland
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush. — David Foster Wallace
I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll. — Jimmy Buffett
You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the… — Frank Sinatra
I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake up slowly or… — Daniel Handler
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude… — George Canning
The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That… — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush. — John B. Tabb
How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song. — James Grahame
Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep. — William Allingham
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned… — Tom Robbins
Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no… — Dag Hammarskjold
The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or… — Annie Dillard
Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana:… — Trevanian
Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on.… — Jack Kerouac
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in… — Evelyn Waugh

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