A quiet conscience makes one strong!
When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.
The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.
. . . nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!
Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as. . . as. . . " "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
You're going to pee in someone's suitcase?" "Do you have any other ideas?" And suddenly Miracolina begins to snicker, then giggle, then giggle, then cackle uncontrollably. "He's going to pee in someone's suitcase!" "Quiet! Do you want people on the bus to hear you?" But Miracolina is beyond help. She's entered into a fullfledged laughter fit-the kind that leaves your stomach hurting. "They're gonna open their suitcase," she blurts between bursts of glee, "And their clothes’ll be full of pee!
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a speech because i've had to do it so much. I've so much support from the people around me that I can achieve something like that, crazy introvert that I am, I never would have thought that would happen.
I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.
There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early. . . but he's also never late, either.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'. . . so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]