Quotes of: Quiet-time Keyword

It’s amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life.

A Rhapsody of Dreams

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

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Matthew Stover

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

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

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

Marilynne Robinson

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more a...

Patti Davis

Paul Bäumer: We live in the trenches out there. We fight. We try not to be killed, but sometimes we are. That's all.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Paul Bäumer: And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Tjaden: They tell me there's some people in this world take a bath every week.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Magnus remembered a town in Peru whose Quechua name meant “quiet place.” He recalled even more vividly being obscenely drunk and unhappy over his heartbreak of that time, and the maudlin thoughts that had recurred to him over the years, like an u...

What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

Once it was the parents who taught their children to talk; now the children teach their parents to keep quiet.

Yiddish

My least favorite form of street harassment is when a guy asks why I’m not smiling. It’s related to that: Women aren’t allowed to be quiet or stoic or shy—or, hell, just in a bad mood—without being criticized. Women are bitchy and frigid if...

He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know

A silent velvet footstep filled me, unwelcome yet so needed. You finally found my hidden shore with grains of time and ocean of the most secret secrets, violet and red; left a trail of deep blue footsteps on my glowing beach of soul, and no matter ho...

Oksana Rus

Jack Twist: [looking over at Ennis in the firelight; he has laid back and is looking up at the stars, smiling] Anything interesting up there in heaven? Ennis Del Mar: [for the first time in a long time, content] I was just sending up a prayer of than...

Brokeback Mountain

With money you can make the dead speak; without it you can't even keep the deaf quiet.

Chinese

Your friend has a friend and the friend of your friend has another friend. Learn how to keep quiet.

Hebrew

I’d like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

The impact of your vision, while quiet and ever present, will be astounding over time as it becomes a reality.

Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Just Listen

The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.

Saving June