Quotes About Quiet

Ele [Henry} é tão quietinho... - As águas paradas são as que têm maior profundidade

Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

The secret is to have a quiet heart, and to celebrate each moment of life so as to have no fear of death.

to bed." They let the fire die down. There was no

A cemetery is a history of people -a perpetual record of yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because crcrv life is worth loving and rc nrcnrbcrirli-alm111s. - WILLIAM GLADSTONE, PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND, 1890

I just miss - I miss being anonymous.

First of all, I'm misunderstood in general. I don't mind because I'm very quiet, and I stay to myself. People are going to say what they want to say.

I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the sense that there's some sort of shared experience. There's respect for quiet, more or less, but otherwise, there's activity.

They clung together in that bright moment of wonder, there on the magic island, where the world was quiet, believing all they said. And who shall say—whatever disenchantment follows—that we ever forget magic, or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

A third lesson is to constantly remind yourself of the benefits of tension, which can be easy to forget when all you want is a quiet life.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.

Not a minister, he said, but I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

In the end he wore me down. Always asking. And the answer I give him is still the only one I have. What do I want? Peace. And it actually shut him up. He didn't niggle me about it. It was like he got it straight off. I don't just want quiet, neither. I want peace.

Someplace nice and quiet and away from the spaceport, I hope, Thalias said. The first thing Yiv will probably assume is that we'll try to steal a ship. Indeed he will, Thrawn agreed. So where are we going? Thrawn leaned forward, giving her a smile around the edge of his dripping hood. To the spaceport, he said. To steal a ship.

At this table, a loud voice was just a man venting his stress. A quiet one was far more dangerous.

you got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

Down came the dry flakes, fat enough and heavy enough to crash like nickels on stone. It always surprised him, how quiet it was. Not like rain, but like a secret.

Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel.

My nature is a quiet one, anyway. As a child I was considered respectful; as a young woman I was called discreet. Later on I was thought to have the wisdom maturity brings.

The doctor raised the gun and pointed it at what in his fear ought to have been flaring nostrils, foaming lips, and the red-rimmed eyes of a savage. Instead he saw the quiet, even serene, face of a man not to be fooled with.

No, really. Just quiet. Nothing louder than waves lapping or ice melting in crystal glasses.