Quotes About Quiet

There are people nobody notices, but the world revolves around them. They're the quiet ones, the strong, peaceful ones, who form the unbreakable hub for a bunch of fragile spokes. True families aren't bred, they're spun together. And at their center, at the center of the infinite wheel of every family of every kind, blood or otherwise, there is a hub, that person, those people, who hold the wheel together and keep it turning.

The silence in the apartment is loud.

I loved getting up before everyone else, when the house was still and I could read or listen to a podcast alone in a frozen world. I knew where everyone was. I knew they were safe. I could relax.

Most supernatural peace is too quiet for our flesh.

I smiled the innocuous smile of one human soul acknowledging another on a soft, quiet night in an often bustling city.

I think it was a communication of the heart. When we kept quiet, our hearts discovered that they were kindred spirits.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Claire knew the flavor of solitude. It was cold as spring water, and not all could drink it; for some it was not refreshment, but mortal chill.

He had learned early on the trick of living separately in a crowd, private in his mind when his body could not be. But he was born a mountain-dweller, and had learned early, too, the enchantment of solitude, and the healing of quiet places.

The night was cold, and very quiet, as though we were the only two souls in the world.

There was a curious peace in this day, a sense of things working quietly in their proper courses, nothing minding the upsets and turmoils of human concerns. Perhaps it was the peace that one always finds outdoors, far enough away from buildings and clatter. Maybe it was the result of gardening, that quiet sense of pleasure in touching growing things, the satisfaction of helping them thrive.

It was very quiet here on the mountainside, but, quiet in the of hills and forests. A quiet that wasn't silent at all, but composed of constant tiny sounds. It was small buzzing in the gorse bush nearby, of bees working the yellow flowers -dusty with pollen, far below was the rushing of the burn, a low note echoing the wind above stirring leaves and rattling twigs sighing past the jutting boulders.

Some nights, he even slept.

I sat down quietly in a corner with my glass of port, and kept quiet while Simon questioned Jamie once again about Charles Stuart's situation and prospects.

Mr. Farquard Campbell," the butler said quietly, and stood back against the wall.

Nothing." He pulled his

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow.

There is no more perfect stillness than the solitude in the heart of a snowstorm

I love doing dramas because it's quiet and focused work.

I've always been quiet in the dressing room before the game. I try to focus and give everything.

I'm incredibly dull and I very rarely leave the house. I don't go out, I don't drink, I'm really boring.

Some of the best cricketers in the world were very quiet on the field but came across in a way that made it very hard to sledge them. It went in one ear and out the other.

When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'

I never really played in an empty gym before.