Quiet Quotes
2761 Quiet quotes by 1865 unique authors
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When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you…
— Helen Schucman
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I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.
— Jessica Hahn
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We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on…
— J.R. Miller
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I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal;…
— Bobby McFerrin
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Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are…
— Paul the Apostle
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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that…
— John Starks
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In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and the…
— Robert D. Hales
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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.…
— William Butler Yeats
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Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.
— Unknown Author
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A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them be real quiet,…
— Jack Handey
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Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull…
— Jack Handey
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Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value.…
— Laozi
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But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw,…
— Bernadette Roberts
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Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do…
— William Morley Punshon
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Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter…
— Karl Jaspers
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Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its…
— Ray Kurzweil
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When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them to…
— Frank Abagnale
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I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and…
— Ricky Gervais
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But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene...…
— Ken Kesey
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I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I'd love to be able to sleep. I'll probably not rest. I have no…
— Elvis Presley
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As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.
— Yukio Mishima
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I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year…
— Unknown Author
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Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up…
— Alan Sillitoe
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