Quiet Quotes

2761 Quiet quotes by 1865 unique authors

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure… — Freya Stark
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and… — William O. Douglas
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet… — Bell Hooks
In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not… — Dar Williams
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that… — George Leigh Mallory
The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my… — Muhammad Ali
I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with… — Danny Boyle
I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy. We cannot just keep quiet because that is… — Corazon Aquino
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the… — Stanislaw Lem
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought. — Alexander Graham Bell
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my… — Max Stirner
My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it… — Neville Chamberlain
The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is need for much… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the… — Zelda Fitzgerald
And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don't quiet… — Nigel Farage
Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence. — Carl Hiaasen
There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that… — Junichiro Tanizaki
...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the… — P.G. Wodehouse
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the… — William Butler Yeats
When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock. — Stephen Mitchell
There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet… — Eugene Kennedy
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and… — Sigurd F. Olson
Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker… — Gregory Bateson
Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had… — Bernie Krause

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