Peace And Quiet Quotes - Page 3

• Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Doe, Village

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• It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

  Bart Yates

  Loneliness, Pay, Quiet

  Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.56, Kensington Books

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• Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Silence

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• Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.

  Etty Hillesum

  People, Tree, Feelings

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.305, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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

  John Milton

  Peace, Calm, Quiet

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 45

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• The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Travel, Men, Quiet

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• The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

  Simon Schama

  Depressing, Golf, Decay

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• I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.

  Kofi Annan

  Winning, Victory, Sides

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. September 18, 2012.

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• Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

  William Thoms

  Errors, Desire, Trying

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• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  People, Earth, Today

  1954 The Fellowship of the Ring, prologue.

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• Sometimes God does something dramatic to get our attention. That's what happened to me in 1975. My family and I were enjoying the peace and quiet of a borrowed cabin in the Colorado Rockies. I was stretched out on a lounge chair in the midday warmth, praying and thinking. I was considering how we Christians - not just the mission I was part of, but all of us - could turn the world around for Jesus.

  Loren Cunningham

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• I'm looking forward to some peace and quiet. I fantasize about having a home, which I've kind of never had.

  Lykke Li

  Home, Looking Forward, Quiet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I enjoy Pilates and I do yoga at home where I get peace and quiet. I think it helps that I don't drink and I never smoked. You see so many young girls smoking and you want to say to them 'it's bad for your skin and health, everything'.

  Kristin Davis

  Girl, Yoga, Home

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Home, Pride

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.126

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• I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sea, Fishing, Different

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• I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

  Harriet Martineau

  Atheism, Superstitions, Next

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.568, Broadview Press

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• We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Peace, Moving, Home

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• I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Horse, House, Cooking

  "Designer Q&A: LisaRaye on PZI Jeans". Interview with Elliana Placas, www.essence.com. October 4, 2011.

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• There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Block, Criminals, Nests

  Simon Wiesenthal (2008). “The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness”, p.95, Schocken

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• I'm a people person when I'm out, but I'm a homebody. I like my time and peace and quiet.

  Kid Cudi

  People, Quiet, Homebodies

  "Complex's Kid Cudi Cover Story: The Uncut Interview Outtakes". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. August 15, 2009.

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• For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.

  Dave Barry

  God, People, Stupidity

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• We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work.

  Stefan Zweig

  Forever, Political, Contentment

  Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig, Henry G. Alsberg (1954). “Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942”

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• I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. I’ve still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that they’d finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.

  Lennox Lewis

  School, Long, Guy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Lost Youth, Quiet

  All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1

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• The older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Natural Talent, Getting Older

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

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