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Quotes About Quiet

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
~ Carson McCullers
The quiet room was too peaceful and comfortable to worry in.
~ Carson McCullers
Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.
~ Carson McCullers
There was none of the quiet insolence about this man.
~ Carson McCullers
Three months before Cadel's eleventh birthday, his French teacher left the classroom, briefly, to answer an urgent phone call. When she returned, she found the entire class in an uproar with everyone fighting and shouting - except Cadel. He satin the midst of this chaos, quietly finishing the exercise she had set for all of them.
~ Catherine Jinks
GRETZ: You yield in every duel! KY: I do not! GRETZ: What do you think, Qui-Gon? QUI-GON: I think you should be quiet.
~ Cavan Scott
Rosie, Hello from Portugal! Weather here really hot. Dad got sunstroke and all mum does is lie by the pool which is really boring. Not much people here my age. Hotel quiet (on front of postcard) and it's right on the beach as you can see. You would love to work here! I'm bringing home a collection of those little shampoos and shower caps and stuff that you love. The bathrobe is too big to fit into my bag. See you when I get back, Alex
~ Cecelia Ahern
I don't know if it's because of him and the way he was, but I've always hoped generally that silent people hold a magic and a knowledge that less contained people lack; that their not saying something means that more important thoughts are going on inside their head.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.
~ Charlaine Harris
When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
~ Norman MacCaig
Milwaukee is really quiet. The people here are really respectful. They can see me in the street, walking on the road. I can go to anyplace in Milwaukee without people being all over me. I appreciate that.
~ Giannis Antetokounmpo
If you feel that your dreams aren't coming true, you might think that you need to do more, or to think and strategize more. In fact, what you might need is less—less noise coming to you from both inside and outside—so that you have the space for your heart's truest intention to germinate and flourish.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
There are moments when we think we're being silent because all around us there's no sound, but unless we calm our mind, talking is still going on all the time inside our head. That's not true silence.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in wayward enmity to her quiet of mind.
~ Thomas Hardy
Boldwood, whose unreasoning devotion to Bathsheba could only be characterized as a fond madness which neither time nor circumstance, evil nor good report, could weaken or destroy. This fevered hope had grown up again like a grain of mustard-seed during the quiet which followed the hasty conjecture that Troy was drowned. He nourished it fearfully, and almost shunned the contemplation of it in earnest, lest facts should reveal the wildness of the dream. Bathsheba having at last been persuaded
~ Thomas Hardy
Silence and no lambs screaming.
~ Thomas Harris
Folks out here talk about fate, but for Kit it was a matter of stillness.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!
~ Katherine Mansfield
masses of broken rock, a flock of sheep came pattering. They were huddled together, a small, tossing, woolly mass, and their thin, stick-like legs trotted along quickly as if the cold and the quiet
~ Katherine Mansfield
late the other night, when the kids were asleep and the birds at roost, I made a tour through the Internet's second-hand bookstores,…
~ Kathleen Jamie
By simply relaxing, being quiet, breathing and having a heartfelt intention to help another being, you create a sacred space. In this space, all things are possible.
~ Kathleen Prasad
It was quiet in the jungle, the kind of quiet that rings in your ears.
~ Kaza Kingsley
I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
~ Keith Richards
Friday night, I resolved to have a quiet time. Two pints and a chips carry-home. Alas, the pints got away from me and I hit the top shelf.
~ Ken Bruen