Quotes About Quiet

Although this explains the mysterious way Meloux seemed to have known he was coming, Cork still understands that the old Mide has a gift for such forewarnings. Meloux once explained it as a communication with nature that Cork himself could nurture if he was so inclined. "It is not a secret language," the Mide had said. "You need to quiet all the other voices in your head and listen.

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They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don't need to prove anything to the world:

So quiet that house was in the night, so quiet all the other little homes around it were that held the elderly in them and the old alone or still in couples sleeping early, waking, lying awake and thinking about the past. So much past every night in the silence settling over those houses that all looked much the same on a hillside creeping up against the rock and gorse and tipping down to the river where it widened, widened and ended in the sea.

Après leur dernier échange, il était parti lentement. Sans faire de bruit. Aussi discret qu'un point-virgule dans un roman de huit cents pages.

The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.

What I want to preserve are not just beautiful places but the possibility that an individual can, in this overheated, overcrowded world, find a place to be quiet and alone. To have their own freedom. Is this really too much to ask? Shouldn't there be a few places left to get away from motors? From the incessant roar of machines?

It was a tough break. Parry was innocent. On top of that he was a decent sort of guy who never bothered people and wanted to lead a quiet life. But there was too much on the other side and on his side of it there was practically nothing. The judge handed him a life sentence and he was taken to San Quentin.

At three in the morning it was dead around here and the windows of the mansion were black, the mansion dark purple and solemn against the moonlit velvet, green of gently sloping lawn.

The origin of the great Way (the Tao) [is] the heavenly heart.... If you can be absolutely quiet then the heavenly heart will spontaneously manifest itself.124

This casual neglect, a lack of care and worry, helped him feel easy in this quiet and leisurely part of the city.

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.

The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.

In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.