Being Quiet Quotes - Page 2

• Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.

  John Graves

  Morning, Land, Silence

  John Graves (1960). “Goodbye to a river: a narrative”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Simplicity, World

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• I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Daughter, Mother, School

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• It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

  Brian Basset

  Imagination, Quiet, Loud

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• It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

  James Taylor

  Song, Emotional, Discovery

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sorry," she says. I wheel around. "You know, you're a total know-it-all. And it's incredibly rude sometimes; I mean, you're not perfect either, and you act like it's my fault but it's not my fault for being quiet or your fault for being a know-it-all. It's not your problem or my problem; it's their problem. They're the demented ones, not us, so don't take it out on me, because the only thing that holds things together for me is having someone else on the Not Demented Team.

  John Green

  Sorry, Team, Mean

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• Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, Fighting, People

  "Women Leading the Way" by Robin Amos Kahn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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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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• I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

  Ned Vizzini

  Depression, Suicide, Lying

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• If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

  Margaret Atwood

  Moving, Bridges, Over You

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• I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

  Gillian Anderson

  Real, Stopping, Quiet

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• Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga-whether physical yoga or meditation-with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone. (109)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Yoga, Eye, Psychics

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Art, Cutting, Order

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• Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  People, Soul, Sound

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• Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Talking, Quiet, Sometimes

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.37, Serpent's Tail

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• Are you in a library or what?! 
  (on the crowd being quiet)

  Stuart Pearce

  Library, Crowds, England

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• I can't imagine Revolution being quiet, unassuming, or bashful

  Immortal Technique

  Revolution, Quiet, Imagine

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• The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.

  Karrine Steffans

  Life Is Short, Sleep, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Thinking, Talking, Golden

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