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Quotes About Quiet

not trying to be seen. They do their work underground. But quietly and without fanfare, they provide help and support and nourishment. They are happy when I thrive. Come what may, they support my soul. They hold my soul up. A tree may have many branches and many leaves, and only a few roots, yet it is the roots that are strong, resilient, and powerful.
~ Tyler Perry
Let us have peace.
~ Unknown
There was a beauty to quiet collective activity that she would never take for granted.
~ Una McCormack
Oh, how a quiet love can drown out every fear.
~ Unknown
The streets are empty and quiet this early in the morning and I can hear my own footsteps as they fall. I can never forget the imperfections in these brick sidewalks, where they rise and dip around tree roots, where loose segments can make you stumble and fall. Mom is right, the morning is cooler than I expected, but I am committed to the cold air sting that will soon turn to an unbearably soggy heat. Such is the way of a city built on a swamp.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?
~ Unknown
Her manner was mild, interior; she often paused before speaking, as if waiting to hear what she was about to say.
~ Unknown
That profound darkness where weeping doesn't exist.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
Hr heard your prayers, son. He just didn't answer them the way you'd hoped. And there's no special way to talk to God. Just find a quiet place and tell Him what's on your heart like you talk to Lara.
~ Unknown
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
~ Thomas Kincade
I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.
~ Annie Lennox
An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.
~ Christian de Portzamparc
Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.
~ Ronaldinho
Happy Birthday!' I yelled, 'Now, shut up!
~ Rick Riordan
A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
~ William Penn
It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.
~ Neil Gaiman
Silence is full of speech.
~ Unknown
Spellman often said that during his waking hours he was alone only twice each day, for 25 minutes each time:
~ Peter F. Drucker
Memphis both fueled Elvis's creative development and twisted his perspectives. Essentially, he and the town mirrored each other. They were both quiet and polite on the outside. Below the surface, they were ready to burst.
~ Unknown
See, squire," he said to the wide-eyed hotel manager, "our boss tells us we don't want a lot of fuss about this. None of this evacuating the area bollocks you see on telly. We go in, we disarm him nice and quiet, then bob's your uncle, we're out of your hair for good. Okay? No problems for us and no bad publicity for the hotel.
~ Peter Robinson
Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.
~ Philip Pullman
And whose quiet static laughter is always appropriate, conscious, complicated by an automatic and sophisticated concern for the special sensitivities of everyone present. Viz. Bonnie laughs only with ; Carlina was so conceived and constituted as to laugh only at .
~ David Foster Wallace
The terminal has that too-suddenly-hushed feeling of the moment after loud music stops.
~ David Foster Wallace
Sometimes I just want everything to stop for a bit and leave me alone in my head. Even the noise would be quiet by comparison. But migration is a mad dash. We have to go as fast as we can.
~ David Gerrold