Peace And Quiet Quotes - Page 2

• That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

  Michael Chabon

  School, Giving, Parent

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September, 2012.

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• I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Moving, Cat, Mirrors

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.373, Delacorte Press

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• My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Country, Quiet

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• In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

  Tacitus

  Men, Quiet, Virtue

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.141, London : Macmillan

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• There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.

  John Brunner

  War, Stupid, Responsibility

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot sleep peacefully when there is a theif in the neighborhood. Likewise, when we pray for the well-being of others, it is we who gain peace and quietude. Children, the mantra 'Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu' should be chanted at least once daily.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Sleep, Giving

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• The ashram is Mother's body. Mother's soul is in Her children. Children, all the service done for the ashram, is done for Mother. The ashram is not anyone's private property. It is the means to provide peace and quietude for the entire world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mother, Children, Mean

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• I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.

  Daphne Guinness

  Order, Cities, Ideas

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• Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Years, Heaven

  Bertolt Brecht (1971). “Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children”

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• I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

  Elaine Paige

  Home, Quiet, Music Is

  "Elaine Paige's Musical Life, Lived On Stage". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 09, 2011.

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• My RV is the only place where I can find some peace and quiet.

  Jim Kaat

  Rvs, Quiet, I Can

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• Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.

  Ann Petry

  Music, Pain, Hate

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• I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Children, Mean

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• For me probably the best moment is before I get started in the morning. I get up and I ride my bike before I come into the studio, so there's a lot of peace and quiet right before the day starts and my assistants get here.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Morning, Assistants, Quiet

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

  Benito Mussolini

  Giving, Want, Calm

  "Benito Mussolini: a biography".

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• Peace and quiet govern the world.

  Laozi

  Taoism, World, Quiet

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• Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Victory, Quiet

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• I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Fighting, Quiet, Imagine

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• Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, People, Choices

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• There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during those beautiful hours of free time everyone would have the opportunity to rouse himself into real boredom. But although one wants to do nothing, things are done to one: the world makes sure that one does not find oneself. And even if one perhaps isn't interested in it, the world itself is much too interested for one to find the peace and quiet necessary to be as thoroughly bored with the world as it ultimately deserves.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Beautiful, Real, Sunday

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• Nothing has ever opened my eyes like transcendental meditation has. It makes me calm and happy, and, well, it gives me some peace and quiet in what’s a pretty chaotic life!

  Hugh Jackman

  Eye, Giving, Meditation

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• I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the edge of a folding chair with a full bladder. I can't stand hearing a poem that I can't see. I did a reading at Wayne State, and it ended with the comedy such occasions deserve. I'd seated myself on a piano bench, and discovered upon attempting to arise at the end that the varnish had softened and I was stuck fast. The hinge was to the front, under my knees, so that as I tried to get up, I merely opened the lid.

  Ted Kooser

  Reading, Piano, Benches

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• You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

  Alice Walker

  Wisdom, Confused, Church

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• I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the stardom and celebrity that I can handle. But I also have peace and quiet. I am left alone. And I am not recognized everywhere I go and it's perfect. I can come and fill the theatres and I get on stage ... people say: "Well, oh yeah, that must be him," you know?

  Don McLean

  Mean, People, Perfect

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• It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Hate, Kids

  Remarks of First Lady Michelle Obama Let’s Move! Launch Anniversary Speech to Parents, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 9, 2011.

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