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Quotes About Quiet

I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.
~ Keri Russell
I get up around 4 every morning because it's the only time I can find time for myself.
~ Jeremiah Brent
I am really opinionated when I want to be but I'm just not loud.
~ Ben Howard
Don't speak. Let me think, or, rather, let me try not to think.
~ Oscar Wilde
There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.
~ Oscar Wilde
It was one of those still evenings you get in the summer, when you can hear a snail clear its throat a mile away.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor—and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that. 'It's no good trying to get Bertie to take the slightest interest' is more or less the slogan, and I'm bound to say I'm all for it. A quiet life is what I like.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Then they appeared to ooze off, for all became quiet save for the lapping of the waves on the shore. And, by Jove, so sedulously did these waves lap that gradually a drowsiness crept over me and not ten minutes after I had made up my mind that I should never get to sleep again in this world I was off as comfortably as a babe or suckling.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The adage: "He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom," could never be applied to my profound and quiet master. Though
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
La meta de la ciencia del yoga es aquietar la mente, para que pueda escuchar sin distorsión alguna el infalible consejo de la Voz Interior.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The soul speaks its truth only under quiet, inviting, and trustworthy conditions.
~ Parker J. Palmer
My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life.
~ Pat Conroy
I studied their relationship with something approaching awe because I could not figure out what made it work. I felt love between these two people but it was a love without flame or passion. There were also no rancors or fevers, no risings or ebbings of the spirit to chart, just a marriage without weather, a stillness, a resignation, just windless days in the Gulf Stream of their quiet aging.
~ Pat Conroy
The house was still as northern woods in winter, when all the creatures are gone.
~ Pat Frank
He could think no longer; he leaned against his shadow. The silence within the slab of ancient stone eased through him; his thoughts, worn meaningless, became quiet again.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that's what I've had to make the best of.
~ Patricia Hampl
I can easily bear cold, loneliness, hunger and toothache, but I cannot bear noise, heat, interruprions, or other people.
~ Patricia Highsmith
It is much more important to cultivate the    quiet, inward space of a constant listening than to always be approaching God for specific direction.
~ Dallas Willard
making sure to leave the evening free as the start of your time with Jesus.
~ Dallas Willard
We will never know Sabbath delight unless God delivers us from drowning in the noise and grime of our soiled days.
~ Dan B. Allender
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
~ Dan Simmons
I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am.
~ Jose Mourinho
If you listen very quietly, it sounds like the rain is playing music in the grass and the trees…
~ Gideon, age 6
I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.
~ Mary McGarry Morris