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Quotes About Quiet

I like to curl up in a quiet corner and write a good book. I hate when life gets in the way of my hobbies.
~ Carrie Olguin
In quiet we had learn'd to dwell- Myvery chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends- To make us what we are:-even I Regain'd my freedom with a sigh.
~ George Gordon Byron
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
~ George Gordon Byron
By all means use sometimes to be alone.
~ George Herbert
Q. Why don't the British panic? A. They do, but very quietly. It is impossible for the naked eye to tell their panic from their ecstasy.
~ George Mikes
I'm scared of becoming a noise crank, but I always just loved quiet. I love to have conversations without straining to hear...
~ George Prochnik
Amo esta soledad, lejos de los problemas de la vida en común.
~ George R. Stewart
The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking.
~ George R.R. Martin
It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.
~ George R.R. Martin
The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.
~ Josephine Rathbone
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
~ Erma Bombeck
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
~ Thomas Hood
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.
~ John F. Kennedy
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
~ Bible
I'm exhausted from not talking.
~ Sam Goldwyn
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Still waters run deep.
~ English proverb
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!
~ John Keats
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
~ Thomas Gray
I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, - "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.
~ William Cowper
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.
~ Omar Khayyam
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
~ Thomas Carlyle