Quotes About Quiet

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

They saw her moving quietly back there like a metaphysician in a novel

He slept like a shout.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

said, more calmly now. "Shut the

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

This November there seems to be nothing to say.

madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…

Soon there were grown-ups scattered all across the grass. In the dark, they looked like laundry. "Now," said Bean in a loud voice. "Look up into the sky. Smell how nice the grass is. Listen to the trees. And just rest. Don't talk. Don't do anything. And don't worry. You're totally safe.

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

I try to keep a low profile.

I like to keep a low profile.

Anyway, I am a private person. You will never hear me talk about or promote my family.

I don't feel that I or Canada has to prove anything through big, loud, overt acts.

I don't want to be one of those guys that people just talk about. I'm not good with people talking about me. I'd rather be the guy that just goes out and proves himself, and there's nothing left to say.

The good and wise lead quite lives

A woman of hot temper - and a man the same - Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever.

That's your little mob in there,' said Grimes; 'you let them out at eleven.' 'But what am I to teach them?' said Paul in sudden panic. 'Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.

Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.

and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

As an open fire in a dark room throws romance and pathos into the quiet faces at its edge, so she cast her lights and shadows around the rooms that held her

Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.