Quiet Quotes - page 4

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul. (Marcus Aurelius)
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. View quote
Norman Borlaug
I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly. View quote
Julie Andrews
By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror-like mind, which reflects all, without being affected. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
You can look only when the mind is completely quiet. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. View quote
John Cage
Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice. View quote
Leona Lewis
Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like anything and some dreams are like something and some dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams are not. And some dreams are just what any one would do only a little different always just a little different and that is what a novel is. (Gertrude Stein)
I'll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises. View quote
Thom Yorke
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune. View quote
Walter Raleigh
Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens. View quote
Jigoro Kano
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people. View quote
Christian Slater
... the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended. View quote
Julia Child
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Life was about spending time together, about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as they watched the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life had to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family? View quote
Nicholas Sparks
The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange. (Hunter S. Thompson)
A pure, sincere, and stable spirit is not distracted though it be employed in many works; for that it works all to the honor of God, and inwardly being still and quiet, seeks not itself in any thing it doth. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice. View quote
Elaine Paige
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu