Quotes About Quiet

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil

I'd like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others' eyes, reflected.

I don't regret anything I was before because I still am. I only regret not having loved you. Put your hands in mine And let's be quiet, surrounded by life.

Sacred space allows us to enter our quiet inner world where healing takes place.

O quam dulcis vita fuit dum sedabamus in quieti . . . inter liborum copias. : 'Oh how sweet life was when we sat quietly . . . midst all these books.

When he left us, he stole all the words.

Sunyata, in contrast to rupa, is the realm of pure spirituality, hovering beyond everything material. It's quiet, pure, empty. It's the nothingness that seems to be at the core of subatomic particles; it's the big blank that's left at the moment of death.

The quiet around her seems to make the focus of her prettiness sharper, the air's stillness focuses her in the eye. As if talking might make it harder to see someone.

I begin my work at about nine or ten o'clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Winter was traditionally a quiet time for armies, summer being the accepted and most civilized season to recommence killing the enemy.

One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.

The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.

I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

When I get up early, I appreciate the quiet time to enjoy a coffee or water my plants.

When I am off the field, I am the calm, very quiet kind of easy-sailing ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

People always have game plans to take care of Ronaldo, but very few people succeed in keeping him quiet for 90 minutes.

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

Dad, who worked as a plumber, was a quiet and undemanding man who liked to laugh - and he was a very good dancer.

I know that I need my coffee in the morning, and I don't want to talk to anybody at the start of my day!

My dad is kind of a quiet guy and he keeps to himself a little bit. But he was a competitor at whatever he did, and it kind of carried on with me.

I went to see Mogwai at the Fillmore, and that was both the loudest and quietest concert I've ever been to.