Quotes About Quiet

A wicked person likes to see often the crowd of people around oneself whereas a wise man usually shies away from the loud places and normally loves solitude.

It was so quiet at our table you could've heard a rat piss on cotton.

Silence is medication for sorrow.

Those who do contemplative retreats in hermitages are far from doing nothing, since they are constantly engaged in training their minds, but there is no 'noise,' no 'waste' to eliminate, no stress to cure, no chaos to reorganize. This means that there is less to repair during sleep and the sleep quality of meditators is deeper.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

It's great to see Zizou doing so well. He was a very quiet team-mate, he didn't speak much, but he was a phenomenon on the pitch and he was learning all the time. We didn't know he was going to be a coach but he always had the qualities for it.

I like peace and quiet. It's like I'm a loner.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

We've learned that quiet isn't always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn't always justice.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

We're trying to get the SEAL community back to where we think it should be - quiet professionalism.

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

I love how quiet and calm Milwaukee is.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.

My neighbors are quiet. I am not. I don't know if they're dead or alive.

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.