Top 1200 Quiet Desperation Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.

I'd love to be a director-for-hire and get a nice paycheck and captain one of those big ships, but I think studios mistakenly think I want to write what I direct - which I don't. I write out of desperation, because I never get a script I like, other than "Nebraska." It's a matter of: What's the screenplay? Is it intelligent? Is it human? I don't care what genre, what scale. I'm here for the movies.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.

Buddhas can take you to the boundary line of meditation and samadhi. That is the only difference between meditation and samadhi. If your mind has become utterly quiet and silent, but only the master is there, then it is meditation. If your mind has become so quiet that even the master has disappeared, it is samadhi. The last barrier is going to be the master. He will take you out of the world, but one day you will have to leave him too. And the real master will always keep you alert that you have to leave him one day, at the final stage.

I like a kind of quiet place - Wimbledon Village, for example.

I started as a pretty quiet kid and have had to evolve into a performer.

I realize I have made a lot of mistakes and done things wrong. I've done things I wish I could have done in another way. I didn't come in with the same kind of desperation that I may have had on the first or second record. I didn't come in thinking, 'Oh God, please. I hope this does well because I have nothing else and I worked so hard at this.'

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

I want to shut Camacho's mouth, quiet him for good.

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.

Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

I've always been a quiet guy. I like to keep to myself.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

I'm more of a quiet guy, relaxed, calmer off the court.

Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

Knowing I wasn't going anywhere, I frantically searched for some way to help her. A dark figure caught my eye. "Christian!" I yelled. He'd been staring at Lissa's retreating figure but glanced up at the sound of his name. One of my escorts shushed me and took my arm. "Be quiet." I ignored her. "Go after her," I called to Christian. "Hurry." He just sat there, and I suppressed a groan. "Go, you idiot!" My guardians snapped at me to be quiet again, but something inside of Christian woke up. Springing up from his lounging position, he tore off in the direction Lissa had traveled.

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.

a quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

I realized that I love the quiet bits in most superhero films.

To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility. When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.

Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by nature, by robots, or by fungal infections in and around one's nether-country. Stories need conflict across the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual spectra. Accidents, betrayals, cataclysm, desperation, excess - these are the letters in the alphabet of conflict.

I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

I love doing dramas because it's quiet and focused work.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone - with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.