Quotes of: Quiet-time Keyword

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

Small Gods

The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

The Notebook

The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” he whispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.

The Lost Symbol

That’s how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.

Loved

My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him

Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel

Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

If you can be quiet, you’re more than welcome to stay in my House of Silence. Bring your own bubblegum ice cream.  

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

so quiet now my dearest knight your armor shines white still for my lips shall not say the words that make you flee with fear "White Knight

Sins Within

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

And Then Things Fall Apart

It is a duty of every citizen to pray for those who are authority and the nation; so that each one of us may live a peaceful and quiet lives in sacredness.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.

Persuasion

Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.

Perfect

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

There was something vaguely sad about the rock. It was as old as it looked, standing weathered and lonely amidst the stretch of sand, and its thoughts were quiet as it listened to the waves.

The Rock and the Bird

Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin, pushing you under the surface.

Raw Blue

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.

The Rent Collector

There was an eerie quiet about last night, like death sleeping on the beach of Lake Erie. I woke up with sand in my shoes and tiny coffins on my feet.

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