Q Quotes
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“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
“Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.”
“Quiet people notice everything”
“Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.”
“Quiet quitting can be costly for your reputation and financial. Going above and beyond is the essence of being excellent.”
“Quiet reflection
is often the mother of deep understanding.
Maintain that peaceful nursery,
enabling stillness to speak.”
“Quiet Revolution
Beautiful hearts carry the quiet revolution, a song in thick despair.
Beautiful hearts are bold, for they bloom from a wild freedom.
Beautiful hearts remember unremembered people, the forgotten memories, and fill the earth with the song of their souls.
Beautiful hearts see glory in the gray, dig courage into ashes.
Beautiful hearts carry the music, long after it is silenced.
Beautiful hearts find wisdom in kneeling, not roaring.
Beautiful hearts carry heaven in their hearts.
Often, the world perceives them as lost and broken,
for they behold glory in the grass and flowers,
while others seek it in mansions and riches.
Bless them, for dawn is alive in their hearts.
Bless them, for they make music in this mundane world.”
“Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.”
“Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.”
Source: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
“Quiet the chattering mind promotes directed action. We can't know which interactions will deepen into richer relationships, yet we can keep the faith that our mutuality mindset affirms them. Mutuality most demonstrates our humanity and, in the end, that may be what most matters in our lives.”
Source: Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.”
Source: The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You
“Quiet the mind’s constant chatter of uncontrolled thoughts.”
Source: Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
“Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.”
Source: Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound
“Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.”
“Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.”
“Quiet, towards their town of kind captivities,
Having slain rebellion, ever turned his head
Over his shoulder, seeking still with his poor eyes
Her motionless figure on the road.”
Source: Poems of West & East
“QUIET WRITING
Quiet
does not mean
that we have nothing to say,
or that we leak the power of speech -
we rise up and tell our truths
even if it feels like people don't like it the least;
Writing
is our means
to have something to tell
when we lost our voice suddenly
we still stand behind our truths
even if it feels like people
won't like it.
Beautifully
are the quiet lines
written with thunder
and silent boldness -
for we can have a revolution
inside the pages of nowadays.”
“Quiet your EGO & your thoughts, for they are what rule us. Listen to your heart or gut & you will be happier.”
“Quiet your mental chatter to boost focus. A quick brain dump or screen-free hour can turn chaos into clarity.”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.”
“Quiet! I'm expressing myself!”
“Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.”
“Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She inhabits her characters, young or old, men or women, honestly, but without judgment, until they rise off the page and stand before us breathing and alive. New York, the Atacama desert, Amsterdam or Cuzco in Peru, the settings in Venus in the Afternoon are just as varied as the lives which they contain. A wonderful collection, one that will stay in your mind long after you have bid it goodbye.”
“Quieting a room is one of my favorite things to do.”
Source: The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful
“Quieting the mind means less regretting. The mind is still when it is totally here and now in perfect oneness with the action and the actor. It is the purpose of the Inner Game to increase the frequency and the duration of these moments, quieting the mind by degrees and realizing thereby a continual expansion of our capacity to learn and perform.”
Source: The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
“Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom”
“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Quietly I spread like snow
the silence of my heart,
and discover this day
how deeply I belong.”
Source: Stranger to the Beautiful
“Quietly scuttling Columbus Day sales doesn't mean they are opposed to 15th century Iberian seafarers; it just means They don't want protestors on the sales floor throwing blood on the Calvin Klein hosiery in the name of the anti-imperialistic cause.”
“Quietly Sophronia added, "And the soot on my dress, sir?" "I didn't see anything." Professor Braithwope smiled down at her, showing a small hint of fang. Sophronia grinned back. "I'm glad we understand each other, sir." The vampire looked out into the night. "This is the right finishing school for you, isn't it, whot?" "Yes sir, I think it might very well be." "A piece of advice, Miss Temminnick?" "Sir?" "It is a great skill to have friends in low places. They, too, have things to teach you." "Now, sir, I thought you didn't see any soot.”
“Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.”
Source: A Suitable Boy
“Quietly working on what you care about and what you are great at, minding your business while striving for excellence will get you far in life.”
“Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful, I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter... the bond is there in my mind and memory; Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space.”
“Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren’t trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.”
“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
“Quietude
As music is not in the notes, but in the silence between the notes, the real joy of life is not in the activities, but in the quiet between the activities.”
“Quietude is the hermit’s humble tool. An intrepid person might attempt to wring out of him or herself a translucent state of creative consciousness by deliberately cutting oneself off from all outside stimuli. When the exterior world forms a wall of impenetrable silence, in our state of exile we can hear the unique cadence of the subtle mind’s authentic ringtone.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Quietude
Nothing visits me;
my heart is quiet.
It was Sunday’s roofed school paths,
- everyone gone to the meadow.
The floorboards have a cold shine,
small birds are singing in the garden.
The half-shut tap’s
droplet blinks!
The earth is rose-coloured, larks in the sky;
the sky is a beautiful April.
Nothing visits me;
my heart is quiet.”
Source: The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
“Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.”
Source: Lectures to My Students
“Quietus Interruptus by Stewart Stafford
I've just seen a live mugshot,
A home intruder demands I know,
Crack out knuckle-dusters or mace,
Miscreant justice cold and slow.
Should I invite him in to breakfast?
Serve rich Eggs à la Pepper Spray!
Thump him with my coffee mug,
To end this castle siege for the day.
An amateur matador from this bull fled,
I see frosted breath in a neighbour’s garden,
Shirked his curtain call in a magenta dawn,
Not even a disingenuous “I beg your pardon!”
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.”
“Quillo slid off the wolf’s back. ‘I thought she was going to hurt us, Lonī. She was so…scary!’
‘Hurt animals hurt others, Q,’ replied Lonī. ‘Scared animals scare others. Hidden fear has the loudest bark.’
‘How will I know they won't hurt me?’
‘You won't know, Quillo. Till you have tried to love them first.”
Source: The Dandelions Have It
“QuillSnap is a magical place where faery tales begin and life sparkles every day at my Enchanted Forest." -”
Source: Faery Academy of QuillSnap: Night of the Purple Moon
“Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“Quin esquer se m'arrapa
a la geniva?
Amor, estel amarg
a la deriva,
em fa senyals: jo vaig
per l'altra riba,
traginer de cançons
en cavall sense brida.”
Source: Bruixa de dol
“QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.”
“Quincy [Jones] is one of the greatest world figures, of all-time. I mean he's up there with Muhammad Ali, as far as I'm concerned. His humanitarian work, his contribution to the world and music - he's really an amazing man. Even political divides don't affect his humanity. So, to me, that was extremely meaningful.”
“Quincy didn’t look away from Arch’s face, and she felt something burn in her chest, the same overwhelmingly fierce pride she had felt when looking at a perfectly inked Q sheet or an expansion report that exceeded even her high expectations.
“You will never lose your passion for truth,” Quincy promised.
Arch held his breath a moment, his eyes searching hers. “You say that so confidently.”
“You shake with it, Arch,” Quincy said, lifting a shoulder. “I suppose it’s one of your greater virtues.”
Source: The Q
“Quincy ducked through a small alleyway between buildings and worked her confident way through the backstreets. The route was abundantly full of refuse bins, forgotten crates, and various laundry, hanging from back windows. Several cats, the local monarchy that Qunicy had long been acquainted with, were granting them passage while sitting atop the maze of half-broken fences. Quincy saluted a black female—the reigning queen—and passed through a slender passage between two buildings, leading them out onto Fair Street and its adjoining park in a manner of minutes.”
Source: The Q