Imposition Quote by Joan Baez Download Open image “Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.” — Joan Baez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imposition Noise Noisy Sanity
Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
We like no noise unless we make it ourselves. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we… — Mother Mary Francis Copy Share Image
Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every… — Anne Ortlund Copy Share Image
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Making noise seldom gets you what you want, keeping calm and patience does. — Biman Gandhi Copy Share Image
Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise. — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic. — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image