Quotes with quiet

  • 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.
  • All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
  • Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
  • It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and think I'm 15 years old - they think I'm really young and quiet and shy, and that I've never been in a relationship and have never been in love or anything.
  • There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
  • People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.
  • War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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  • Blaise Pascal All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • John Bunyan If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Joseph Addison 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.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II 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.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • John Major A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
    John Major
    British politician (1943 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell 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.
    The Conquest of Happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Shakespeare A peace above all earhtly dignities: A still and quiet conscience.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Malcolm de Chazal A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • Henry Miller After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bob Monkhouse Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
    Obituary in The Independent
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Walter Bagehot An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Arundhati Roy Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Robertson Davies Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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