Quotes and Sayings About Quiet
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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
