Quiet famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
-- A. A. Milne -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored
-- Adam Levine -
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
-- Agatha Christie -
There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.
-- Alan Finger -
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
-- Alan Watts -
But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
-- Aldous Huxley -
What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
-- Ali MacGraw -
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
-- Amelia Barr -
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
-- Anais Nin -
I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.
-- Andie MacDowell -
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.
-- Andrew Murray -
I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
-- Andy Grove -
I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.
-- Anna Kavan -
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
-- Anne Boleyn -
Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.
-- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -
and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...
-- Anne Lamott -
Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
-- Anne Lamott -
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
-- Anne Lamott -
I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
-- Anne Lamott -
Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker
-- Armand Assante -
It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
-- Arundhati Roy -
I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.
-- Bart Yates -
I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman's right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of a quiet lady expressing her sentiments, not so much to the public as to her immediate friends.
-- Belle Boyd -
I dont think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess Im quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. Im certainly not the quiet reflective type.
-- Ben Daniels -
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
-- Benjamin Spock -
[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
-- Beryl Markham -
Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.
-- Bess Myerson -
My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.
-- Betsy Byars -
It's nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
-- Bjork -
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
-- Bob Dylan -
I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.
-- Bob Newhart -
I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
-- Bobbie Ann Mason -
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
-- Booker T. Washington -
I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.
-- Brad Listi -
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
-- Brené Brown -
There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death
-- Bret Harte -
It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud
-- Brian Basset -
Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere
-- Bruce Lee -
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
-- Bryan Ferry -
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
-- Bryan Ferry -
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
-- Bryan Procter -
Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
-- Bryan Stevenson -
The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
-- Calamity Jane -
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
-- Candice Bergen -
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
-- Carla Bruni -
I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.
-- Catherine Hicks -
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
-- Catherine the Great -
The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
-- Cato the Younger -
I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.
-- Charles M. Blow -
I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
There’s a certain relationship which we have to have with our inner functioning. That of respect and that of wonder. When we are quiet enough and positive enough that we can follow these fine indications inside which lead us to more functioning, we will find out what precious abilities we have which we usually don’t use.
-- Charlotte Selver -
I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
Here's the thing: You rescue us every day in small, quiet ways, so why not in this way? Let us into your mystery, tell us how you would like to be loved, show us how to see you, really see you.
-- Chris Abani -
I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit.
-- Christopher Bailey -
My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.
-- Christopher Lee -
There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.
-- Christopher Pike -
Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
-- Christy Turlington -
By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
-- Claire Tomalin -
I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
-- Clea DuVall -
In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
-- Dale Spender -
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
-- Daniel D. Palmer -
Don't judge me because I'm quiet. No one plans a murder out loud.
-- Darynda Jones -
There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
-- Dave Alvin -
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
-- David Guterson -
I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.
-- David Klass -
I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.
-- David Ortiz -
Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
-- Dean Koontz -
So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.
-- Denise Levertov -
When you are quiet, you see everything with love.
-- Dharma Mittra -
I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.
-- Diego Della Valle -
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.
-- Dirk Benedict -
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
-- Donald Cargill -
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.
-- Dorothy Richardson -
I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.
-- Dusty Springfield -
Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.
-- E. L. Doctorow
