Top 1200 Quiet Desperation Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.

In life, if you stay quiet, you'll get left behind. So I had to learn to be more vocal and outgoing.

I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

I enjoy having a quiet celebration over good food with family and a few close friends.

That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in America] as well. It resonates with this moment and the sort of alienation from the power structure a lot of people feel, as well as a certain amount of desperation, in the hope of disrupting the power structure so they can live better lives. I think in those ways, it's intimately connected to today.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live in.

I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

I've always been quiet in the dressing room before the game. I try to focus and give everything.

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

The best way to get somebody's attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at 'em.

At the end of the day we're humans. Treat others how you want to be treated or just be quiet.

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

A quiet, non-attention grabbing, 'Hey, just wanted to say that I enjoy your work' is perfect.

As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters were starving. Finally I had to find another way. The turning point came when, in desperation and out of a very deep seeking for a meaningful way of life, I walked all one night through the woods. I came to a moonlit glade and prayed.

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater than Whites. Today, there is less overt racism, but the economic injustices create an "institutional racism" which exists even while more Blacks are in high places, such as Condoleeza Rice in Bush's Administration and Obama running for President.

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.

I don't seek the limelight. I'm perfectly happy with a quiet life and spending time with my family, but I deserve recognition.

There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

I try to keep that quiet unless it is asked but yeah, I have a girlfriend and she is a great girl

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.

My father always taught me to never be quiet. That's the good thing about a Bengali household.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something.

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

My parents are people who like to stay to themselves. They're quiet. They raised me not to be boastful about anything we do.

Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined, I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me. But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.