Quotes About Quiet

Fear made you run and hide and shame made you stay quiet

I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

I don't want him to say his hope (wish) out loud. Some things need to be simply planted in the soft dirt of possibility.

She was like one of those animals whose defense mechanism is to blend into the landscape and become invisible. It was her way of dealing with rejection: Say nothing and disappear. Never fight back. If she remained quiet enough, people eventually forgot she was there and left her alone.

rain. In that quiet, Ruby heard the echo of a broken family;

There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having lost something unnamed, unknown. Elsa had survived it by being quiet, by not demanding or seeking attention, by accepting that she was loved, but unliked. The hurt had become so commonplace, she rarely noticed it.

Ženk neskub?damas per triukšm? ir skubi? ir nepamiršk, koki? ramyb? teikia tyla.

I need you," he says, his voice so quiet I have to lean forward to hear. "That's my secret. I need you more than you have ever needed me.

Deep within the center of the soul is a chamber of peace where God lives and where, if we will enter it and quiet all the other sounds, we can hear His "gentle whisper" (1 Kings 19:12).

I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and that was a dangerous thing.

She spoke in the same quiet and unnerving way as she had in the war council, and with the same effect: Liraz spoke, and truth was born.

And Esme remembered in a rush--the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her like the crescendo at the end of a symphony and made her heartbeat quicken.

Here was no storm, no fury. There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and that was a dangerous thing.

He was quiet, and had a shadow's talent for passing unremarked,

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

Quiet Girl I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To a sleep without dreams Were it not for your songs.

Sometimes it was lonely, living in silence.

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

She was the bravest, quietest girl she knew how to be at a time like that.

We often try to compete with the rapid paced entertainment of television, seldom giving children a quiet moment in which to meet God, and many children lose touch with the God for whom their hearts hunger.

Among those Mark and I networked with, Elizabeth Taylor was highly respected for her quiet activism against mind control. It was no surprise when she whisked Michael off to a highly specialized hospital in the UK to have him deprogrammed.

And I have asked to beWhere no storms come,Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,And out of the swing of the sea.