Quotes About Quiet

Hier ruht er, wenn der Wind nicht weht!

She was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.

Car broken down. Everything very quiet. Hope to be back Thursday.' A picture-postcard is a symptom of loneliness.

Work, fight, live. All the sweeter. Mind after mind will shape and absorb. In the end, all will be quiet with wisdom.

As I ponder Sonny's life and death, it strikes me that, whatever his prejudices, he was one of the quiet heroes of this country.

It had been a quiet day in the Kitsap County Morgue, which meant it had been a good day. No one who worked there ever cursed their jobs because there was "nothing to do." An empty chiller meant a day without carrying the hurt of someone else's loss. A child. A wife. Even a friend.

There was silence, where so much sound had screamed.

The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right - noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life - the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover.

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

I have worries, but in difficult times, that is when I am quiet.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I'll never forget what he said. He said, 'Let's get this over with.'

As a fan, Kirk Cousins has this very quiet, composed, confident demeanor that seems to be pretty even-keeled. We don't see him show a ton of emotion. I think that's part of what makes him successful, that he's able to not get too high or too low throughout the course of the game and he keeps his head down, keeps plugging away.

Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.

I do a lot of audio-only interviews at first just to capture a feeling and go deeper, as if you're having the most quiet, intimate conversation you've ever had with someone you love. If I can get that tone of intimacy, then the film will have that.

You don't see too many people on a farm. I didn't grow up dealing with a lot of people.

I don't really like attention too much.

What I loved about Radio 3 back in the olden days, when it didn't give a toss about the youth, were the silences - socking great caesuras just left blank for quiet reflection.

I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.

You have to watch our for the quiet ones. Take some advice from me. The quiet observant girls are the deadliest.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

Lord, remind us that it is not always agitated uprisings and nonstop activity which lead to justice, but that change often comes through the quietcommitment of a small group of people. Help us raise our small body of people to set about quietly becoming the change we want to see in the world. Amen.

When the reception was over I went for a walk and…she's pregnant." They were both quiet a moment, exchanging one of those old-married-people looks he still couldn't decipher, but which made him squirm. He and Beth were both adults, but that didn't make telling his parents he'd accidentally gotten a woman pregnant any easier. "Lot easier to walk with your fly zipped," Leo grumbled.