Top 1200 Quiet Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

I've always been the quiet, not-stand-up-for-myself kind of guy.

Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the rebellion of Promethean man against Heaven from the period of Renaissance and its aftermath, is still the inner man of every man, the reality which no human being can deny wherever and whenever he lives, the imprint of a theomorphic nature which no historical change and transformation can erase completely from the face of that creature called man.

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

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 would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

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 went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.

I think there's a quiet aggression that you need to have, that presence that you have on the mound, the poise, you know.

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

In the open air you don't play as many quiet songs as you would normally.

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

I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.

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

Beyonce in real life is actually quite quiet and very sweet.

Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

I'm really grounded and quite hippie, wanting to nurture and have children and be quiet.

The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.

To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

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

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

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

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

I pretty much keep my mouth quiet and go about my business.

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

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

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

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.