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Quotes About Quiet

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
~ Joseph Conrad
I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
~ Lorene Cary
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
~ Thomas Gray
Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
~ Salman Rushdie
The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.
~ E.M. Forster
She mistrusted the periods of quiet that are essential to true growth. Desiring to book Mrs. Wilcox as a friend, she pressed on the ceremony, pencil, as it were, in hand, pressing the more because the rest of the family were away, and the opportunity seemed favourable.
~ E.M. Forster
Bugün kimse sana dokunmasa mesela. Öyle dursan. Kimse "Neyin var?" diye sormasa. Çünkü insan?n hiçbir ?eyinin olmad??? günler de olur. Hiçbir ?ey günleri...
~ Ece Temelkuran
them perhaps half an hour to finish all they have to do. Alan gets behind the wheel and honks the horn. In the stillness of the night, it sounds like
~ Ed McBain
It was a quaint, quiet square, very typical of London, full of an accidental stillness.
~ Edgar Wallace
where Chicago's vast and growing Negro population shifted and moved and stretched its great limbs ominously, reaching out and out in protest and overflowing the bounds that irked it. Her serene face and her quiet manner, her bland interest and friendly look protected her.
~ Edna Ferber
She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
It is no longer easy, on the South Rim, to get away from the roar of motor traffic, except by descending into the canyon.
~ Edward Abbey
It was several years later that Mrs. Wallis told me the story of her philanthropy, which was always personal and individual rather than as part of an organization. She never appeared in the photos of the women's committee of this or that charity. She did her good works alone and quietly, although her obituary would be headed: "Angel of Hollywood.
~ Edward Bunker
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.
~ Anonymous
Study to be quiet, and to do your own business.
~ Anonymous
People who snore always fall asleep first.
~ Anonymous
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
~ Anonymous
Requiescat in pace [May he rest in peace; May she rest in peace].
~ Anonymous: Latin
This is Jeremy, he doesn't talk much.
~ Anselm Audley
poner al Ejército firme, imponer el orden en este desastre, gobernar esta letrina, unos sopapos aquí y allá, los semanarios callados, el pueblo callado que es lo que le gusta, créame
~ António Lobo Antunes
It is countries with no dissent, which live in the quiet of the grave, that are vulnerable and fragile.
~ Anthony Daniels
She was crying now, quietly, inhaling so vehemently it was as if she were trying to suck the tears back into her eyes.
~ Anthony Doerr