Quiet Quotes - Page 12

• I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there's less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.

  Russell Simmons

  Two, Mind, Want

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.

  Russell Simmons

  Country, Kids, Keys

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there's a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.

  Abby Brammell

  Thinking, People, May

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.

  Tod Machover

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

  Tod Machover

  Squares, Oasis, Boston

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

  Gordon Hempton

  Nature

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• Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.

  Robert Toombs

  Suicide, War, Ocean

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• I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

  James Ellroy

  Cities, Careers, Kansas City

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Purpose, Want

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• I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.

  Carmen Electra

  Independent, Shopping, Quiet Time

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

  Jodi Picoult

  Distance, Dark, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

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• The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Crush, Boys, Eight

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• Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.

  Wallace Stegner

  Agreement, Civilization, Names

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• Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open yourself to a poem with a quiet, receptive mind, in the same way you might listen to a difficult piece of music... If you seize upon a poem and try to extort its meaning before you are ready, it remains opaque. If you bring your own personal agenda to bear upon it, the poem will close upon itself like a clam, because you have denied its unique and separate identity, its inviolate holiness.

  Karen Armstrong

  Unique, Mind, Trying

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• I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Stupid, Air, Goes On

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• My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

  Shawn Johnson

  Normal, Calm, Grounded

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• I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

  Davy Jones

  Pennsylvania, Littles, Towns

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• Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

  Janis Joplin

  Texas, People, Want

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• When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Powerful, Simple, Trying

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.217, Shambhala Publications

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• Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

  Mary Balogh

  Past, Moments, Unnoticed

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• Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

  Layne Staley

  Children, Quiet Person, Excited

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• I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

  Patti Stanger

  Believe, Shy, Hard

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• We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Teammate, Silent

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• 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.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mistake, Wish, Would Be

  Charlotte Bronte, K. M. Weiland (2014). “Jane Eyre”, p.145, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

  Laurence Sterne

  Marriage, Numbers, Alarms

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