Noise Quotes
1175 Noise quotes by 871 unique authors
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What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That…
— James Joyce
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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent…
— Francois Fenelon
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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good…
— William Penn
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The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several…
— Brother Lawrence
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Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and…
— Jacques Monod
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One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors…
— Unknown Author
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Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing.…
— Rajneesh
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Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness.
— Kalki Bhagavan
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A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
— John Keats
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Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.
— Tony Hatch
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I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love -…
— Erma Bombeck
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Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.
— Leon Brown
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Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by…
— Ruth McKenney
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If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
— Desmond Tutu
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A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most…
— William Cowper
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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
— Samuel Johnson
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And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs...
— Aldous Huxley
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Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise…
— Thomas Merton
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
— William Dean Howells
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Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.
— Kevin J. Anderson
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