Quiet Quotes
2761 Quiet quotes by 1865 unique authors
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We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war.…
— Che Guevara
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When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You…
— Charles Baxter
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The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation,…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent…
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
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It can be a bit of a hindrance when you walk into a restaurant for a quiet meal and one or two launch into 'psycho,…
— Stuart Pearce
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The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
— Robert Hass
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The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain…
— Maria Montessori
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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
— Roger Waters
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Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic…
— Siri Hustvedt
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
— Barry Manilow
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I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really…
— Tim Burton
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Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when…
— Tamora Pierce
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The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow…
— David Gerrold
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even…
— Susan Cain
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And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be…
— Unknown Author
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments....
— Samuel Johnson
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It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was…
— Alice Coltrane
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Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every…
— Horatio Dresser
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Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope…
— John Stuart Mill
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No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at…
— H.G. Wells
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Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.
— Susan Glaspell
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We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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I ain't quiet.. everybody else is too loud.
— John Entwistle
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Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet
— Michael W. Smith
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