Quiet Quotes - Page 16

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

Happiness means quiet nerves.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

I've always been pretty much a quiet person. When I was little, I got picked on a lot. After I went through all that, I pretty much kept to myself.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

I'm really grounded and quite hippie, wanting to nurture and have children and be quiet.

Quiet! I'm expressing myself!

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.