Top 1200 Quiet Desperation Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

I sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet.

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse.

The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.

I'm not the quiet sensitive little guy I was. I can't be. There's just too much after me.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

My training sessions were nice, calm, and quiet. Just me and my trainers in the gym.

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.

Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.

I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

People misjudge it sometimes and think I'm selfish or I'm quiet or I'm rude because I don't talk.

I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

I take my inspiration from New York, and I bring it to L.A. and use it as a quiet place to do my work.

If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.