This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.
It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.
What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.
By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
Each life needs its own quiet place.
To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.
It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.
I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.
Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
I used to be really into traditional meditation, but I found that creating new music is the best meditation. When I'm able to get into that space, nothing else matters, and I'm just a vessel for whatever the message is; I feel like I'm not in control. It's like this organic communication, and I feel like that is the quiet, in a way.
I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman's right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of a quiet lady expressing her sentiments, not so much to the public as to her immediate friends.
Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.
