Quotes About Quiet

A Muslim girl does not make her own decisions or seek control. She is trained to be docile. If you are a Muslim girl, you disappear, until there is almost no you inside you. In Islam, becoming an individual is not a necessary development; many people, especially women, never develop a clear individual will. You submit: that is the literal meaning of the word islam: submission. The goal is to become quiet inside, so that you never raise your eyes, not even inside your

It's nice when it's quiet. You become human then.' 'And what do people become if it's noisy,then?' 'They become objects, things.

What a rude creature,' said Baldmoney, in a quiet tone to Sneezewort. 'How vain,' said Sneezewort; 'and he called us persons.' 'I'm waiting,' said the pheasant in a steely voice, looking over their heads. 'Well, you vain insolent creature, you can wait! We're not going out of this wood for you or anybody else!' replied Baldmoney hotly.

For the retiring of the mind within itself is the state which is most susceptible of divine influxions; save that it is accompanied in this case with a fervency and elevation (which the ancients noted by fury), and not with a repose and quiet, as it is in the other.

Everything is so comfortable; the tea-urn hisses so plainly, the toast is so warm, the breakfast so neat, the food so edible, that one turns away, in excitable moments, a little angrily from anything so quiet, tame, and sober. Have we not always hated this life?

Jay Z and Nas is probably my favorite rap beef because Nas was kinda quiet for a while.

Jordan Peele is famous, in part, for imitations - of rappers and dingbats and the 44th president of the United States. But he would be impossible to imitate. He isn't ribald. He's droll. Sometimes he's not even that. Sometimes he's quiet. Sometimes he's sitting across from you expecting you to hold up your end of a conversation.

I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly... When the audience was truly moved, it was absolutely quiet. They were in a communion because they were learning the truth about themselves.

I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year.

I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in an old building.

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure readers into a false sense of security and then assault them with a couple really loud, really strange stories.

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.

I'm so boring. My idea of a great day is just to be home with absolutely nothing to do.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

I'm guarded; I don't talk much.

I keep to myself a lot, I guess.

I'm just a low-key guy.

I'm one of the guys that's always behind the scenes and always low-key.

I like the gym the best when it's mostly empty.

When I get some time off, I don't even want to see people half the time.

Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.

It has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. It was warm and bright and the trees were in full color, magnificent, explosive, like permanent fireworks — reds and yellows, oranges, some so brilliant that Crayola never put them in crayons for fear the children would color outside the lines. [Eloise]

Oh, fierce librarians, then? Tell you to shush and that sort of thing?