Quiet Quotes
2761 Quiet quotes by 1865 unique authors
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In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was…
— Dani Shapiro
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The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
— Albert Schweitzer
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The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
— Gustav Stickley
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There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of…
— Gustav Stickley
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We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be…
— Dean Ornish
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And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking…
— danah boyd
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I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way…
— Unknown Author
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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays…
— John Crowe Ransom
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It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is…
— Ellen G. White
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I'm a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I…
— Donald Trump
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It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when they…
— Anthony of Padua
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The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt…
— John of the Cross
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Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.
— Charles Colson
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Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And…
— Robert Browning
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Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while…
— H. W. L. Poonja
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For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others.…
— Gertrude Stein
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It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in…
— Paulo Coelho
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One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet…
— Clifford Odets
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Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.
— Karen Joy Fowler
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Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
— James McHenry
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It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be…
— Robert McCracken
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I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a…
— John Masefield
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