Top 1200 Quiet Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I don't seek the limelight. I'm perfectly happy with a quiet life and spending time with my family, but I deserve recognition.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

A quiet, non-attention grabbing, 'Hey, just wanted to say that I enjoy your work' is perfect.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

I enjoy having a quiet celebration over good food with family and a few close friends.

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

It's easy to respond to the hate cries, usually carefully wrapped up in a flag. Perhaps hate is the greatest simplifier of them all. It's the man with the throb in his voice, the man with the easy formula, the man who tries to shout to my emotions instead of speaking to my mind, the man who is sure he is right that I run from like hell.

I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.

Auburn is a very small, quiet college town, a different kind of place geographically and culturally.

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.

Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.

wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.

I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back — and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

If you're losing, just be a man, be a man and lose as a man. Don't pretend that you are injured and then you start running around and start to hit winners, and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match. I mean, what kind of sportsman are you? What kind of man are you?

I'm trying to bring something new to the Tin Man. He may be the one without the heart, but he's the most heartfelt guy there. It's a more manly heartfelt, a 'don't feel sorry for me' - type of heartfelt. I don't want to say tougher, because that just sounds stupid. But the Tin Man is a man's man.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud.

I have a couple of dogs and I live with my partner. We just like to sit and read and I'm generally quite quiet.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him say something good or keep quiet.

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

My father always taught me to never be quiet. That's the good thing about a Bengali household.