Top 1200 Quiet Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

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

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

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

Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.

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

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God's sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only." Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man's sake, or for morality's sake, for Man's sake, and so-for homo homini Deus-for God's sake?

I've always been shy, I was a quiet child. I didn't start speaking until uh, last year.

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

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.

Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

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

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if man kills an animal, but if an animal attacks man, the act is reprehensible.

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.

According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.

A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor - ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.

I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.

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

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

The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.

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

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

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.

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

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.

Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

The man who is egoless is the man who has no ideals. Let this be the criterion, and you have stumbled upon a fundamental. The man of no ego is the man of no ideals. Then how can the ego be created? - the very energy is missing. The energy comes out of friction, conflict, struggle, will.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

I'm a very quiet person, and I always try to take the pressure off myself before games.

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

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

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

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.

It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.

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

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

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

The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man did, to spend long centuries on earth. Awaiting their devourer's birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from heaven, were, sure, the maddest gift e'er given - 'sent' for man's use (can man believe it?) when there was no man to receive it!

I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.