Quiet Quotes

• Prayer is the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

  

  Andrew Murray
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Persistent

• What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

  

  William Drummond
  • Marriage
  • Sweet
  • Delight

• A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Waiting

• All Quiet on the Western Front.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Quiet
  • Western Front

• People can think what they want to think, I don't go after people. I think most people I talk to, like me, are very quiet and keep to themselves, they maintain their lives.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Want

• I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • House
  • Careers
  • Manhattan

• I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Lying
  • Hours
  • Suicide

• Maybe it was I who needed to learn how to be quiet instead of cluttering the moment with too many words.

  

  Alice Steinbach
  • Words
  • Quiet
  • Cluttering

• To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • Philosophy
  • Backgrounds

• People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Beauty

• I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.

  

  Tori Kelly
  • Kids
  • House
  • Kind

• You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.

  

  Whitney M. Young
  • Power
  • Police
  • New York

• It's really hard for me to remember all of the places that I've been but I can remember all of the delicious meals that I've ever eaten. I love traveling by way or stomach...and finding quiet time.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Way

• All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Space
  • Behinds
  • Rooms

• I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.

  

  Isabel Lucas
  • Quiet
  • Observer

• I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Peace
  • Conscience
  • Dignity

• But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Shadow
  • Quiet
  • Chairs

• I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Quiet
  • Full
  • While

• Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Today
  • Dream
  • Giving

• We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

  

  Everett Dirksen
  • Different
  • Past
  • Times

• Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

  

  Izaak Walton
  • Quiet
  • Contention
  • Angling

• If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Thinking
  • Quiet

• Today is not the day you quit. Nor is it the day you cry. Today you know that you have all the passion and wisdom to find that quiet center of solace, serenity and strength necessary to create and sustain an authentic life.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Today
  • Passion
  • Cry

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