People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
~By Dana Hill ~
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
~By Carly Simon ~
I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
~By Robert D. Ballard ~
I want to live quietly.
~By Mary MacLane ~
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.
~By Christopher Walken ~
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
~By Molly Ivins ~
One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
~By Charles W. Eliot ~
I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
~By Keith Urban ~
In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.
~By Ruth Park ~
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
~By Marc Anthony ~
Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
~By Mac Davis ~
Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.
~By Lucy Liu ~
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
~By Dawn Powell ~
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
~By Barry Cornwall ~
For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
~By Harry Nilsson ~
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.
~By Donald Cargill ~
I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.
~By Honor Blackman ~
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
~By Erich Segal ~
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
~By Truman Capote ~
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
~By Edmund Waller ~
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
~By Bill Watterson ~
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.
~By Ron Chernow ~
The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
~By Ben E. King ~
I enjoy the quiet life.
~By Martin Yan ~
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
~By Garth Ennis ~
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
~By Izaak Walton ~
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
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.
~By Candice Bergen ~
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
~By Dion Boucicault ~
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
~By Robert Lynd ~
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
~By Chief Joseph ~
He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
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.
~By Alan Watts ~
Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
~By Herman Hesse ~
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
~By Freya Stark ~
Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
~By Charles de Lint ~
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
~By George A. Smith ~
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
~By Ieyasu Tokugawa ~
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.
~By Richard Chamberlain ~
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
~By Billy Joel ~
They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.
~By Judy Holliday ~
I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
~By Jerry Goldsmith ~
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
~By John C. Ransom ~
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
~By Joe Louis ~
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.
~By Marian McPartland ~
I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
~By Ali MacGraw ~
Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
~By Dan Hicks ~
I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.
~By Jamie Redknapp ~
I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.
~By Jessica Hahn ~
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
~By John Major ~
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
~By Samuel Butler ~
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
~By Andy Grove ~
I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
There's just no quiet in Vegas.
~By Barry Manilow ~
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
~By Euripides ~
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.
~By Dominic Monaghan ~
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
~By Arthur Golden ~
I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
~By Jack Whittaker ~
That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.
~By Liz Phair ~
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
~By Edward Coke ~
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
~By John Bunyan ~
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
~By Greg Kinnear ~
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
~By Christian Slater ~
Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.
~By Jayne Meadows ~
I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
~By Olivia Newton-John ~
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
~By Clifford Odets ~
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