Top 1200 Quiet Desperation Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit.

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.

Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

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

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

I was quite quiet as a kid. I sat around watching people.

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

I am shy, quiet and like spending time with my family.

It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.

Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me.

Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

When you're quiet, others can form opinions that are way off the mark.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

Everyone gets real quiet 'cause they're a little uncomfortable.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Listen...you can hear the colors flowering in the quiet of your soul

Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.

My RV is the only place where I can find some peace and quiet.

I was a very quiet kid, had nothing much to say.

I'm not quiet, nor am I the class clown. I pick my moments.

It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.

When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.

The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.

You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. The label sort of capitalized on that desperation and that competition. In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative. People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.

It's the quiet, humble guy that's not saying anything. That's the really dangerous one.

I've had a quiet fascination with New Zealand for most of my life.

I always say, 'When things are quiet, you know something is going on.'

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

I always saw myself as this quiet, introspective, thoughtful person.

Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

I thought I would have a quiet pint ... and about 17 noisy ones.

Atiana's very humble and more quiet and just so talented.

We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.