Quiet Quotes - page 2

Quiet people have the loudest minds. (Stephen Hawking)
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. View quote
Billy Joel
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Another world is not only possible, she's on the way and, on a quiet day, if you listen very carefully you can hear her breathe. View quote
Arundhati Roy
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. View quote
William Temple
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't. View quote
Beverly Sills
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew In quiet she reposes Ah, would that I did too. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose. View quote
François Fénelon
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Quiet IS the new loud. View quote
Patrick Stump
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. (Bertrand Russell)
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts. View quote
Bill Watterson
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. View quote
Agatha Christie
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. View quote
Helen Keller
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. View quote
William Butler Yeats
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. View quote
Paul Simon
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. View quote
William Wordsworth
The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart. View quote
William Wordsworth
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. View quote
Adelaide Anne Procter
I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities A still and quiet conscience. View quote
William Shakespeare
A wretched soul bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. (William Shakespeare)
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers. View quote
Franz Boas
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die. View quote
Walter Scott
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit. View quote
Timothy Zahn