Quiet Quotes
2761 Quiet quotes by 1865 unique authors
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That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes…
— Barack Obama
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Why can' t everyone just smoke like me? Just gimme a quiet place and lemme roll my weed, where ain't nobody in my business don't…
— Wiz Khalifa
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There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no…
— Margaret Mead
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When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a decade…
— Edgar Mitchell
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Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of…
— Walter Raleigh
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God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after the rain, Shining and lovely…
— Grace Noll Crowell
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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
— Thomas Jefferson
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In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more…
— Pope John Paul II
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One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative…
— Robert McNamara
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But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
— Charles Dickens
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The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.
— John Vance Cheney
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,…
— Edward Abbey
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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become…
— William Wordsworth
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Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.
— Brian Andreas
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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
— Walter Savage Landor
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I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the…
— Florence Nightingale
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Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is…
— Bonnie Baker
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I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really…
— Mike Shinoda
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