Best quiet & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.”

Form Next Leadership Quality Leader Style Quiet Judgment Diverse Eloquence County Finding Strength

Author:John W. Gardner

“I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.”

Want Happens Form Black White Color Quiet Mass Edges Black And White Not Interested

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.”

People Ifs Way Wells Long Play Age Form Spirit Audience Quiet Intelligent Active Backgrounds Portraits Respectable Neat

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky. New vistas, obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up.”

People Way Giving Whole Form Sky Quiet Summer Whole Life Branches Colour Subtle Delicate December Vistas

Author:Flora Thompson

“When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.”

“Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.”

“... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.”

People World Country Earth Moving Form Speak Company Quiet Silent Population Jew Tongue Breathing Musings Heathen

Book:Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

Source: Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

“Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.”

Ifs Use Would Be Form Prayer Quiet Asking Things To Do Ashamed Truly Happy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)

“I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.”

Source: The Pickwick Papers

“A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.”

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.”

“Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.”

Different Eye Form Joy Prayer Wonder Meditation Gratitude Quiet Blessed Assuming Contemplation Sigh Adoration Exclamation Restful

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

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

Stills Action Moving Form Masters Quiet Moving Forward Inaction

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“"Sabbath is not primarily about us or how it benefits us; it is about God, and how God forms us. It is not, in the first place, about what we do or don't do; it is about God - completing and resting and blessing and sanctifying. These are all things that we don't know much about......But it does mean stopping and being quiet long enough to see - open-mouthed - with wonder - resurrection wonder.....we cultivate the "fear of the Lord". Our souls are formed by what we cannot work up or take charge of. We respond and enter into what the resurrection of Jesus continues to do."”

Source: Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

“Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.”

Art Stills Light Form Christ Stage Divine Shapes Quiet Ideals Remains Supreme Serenity Great Art Transitory Divine Light

Author:Franz Liszt

“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

Life Inspirational Mind Believe Form Religion Causes Quiet All Things Endless Useless Behave Strife Great Power

Book:Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)

“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.”

Feelings Pain Form Religion Literature Humility Quiet Hatred Anger Smile Consuming Sweetest Serene Childlike

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.”

Form Grief Struggle Produce Quiet Serenity Anguish

Author:Simone Weil

“People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.”

People Ifs Men Form Certain Found Rocks Objects Quiet Men And Women Grateful Finding Love Irreplaceable Grateful Love

Author:Mitch Albom

“She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.”

Men Firsts Looks Littles Soul Character Would Be Eye Form Behinds Pieces Seeing Divine Habit Quiet Sand Imperfection Wounded Unseen Mundane Blur Irritating Specks Tiresome

Author:Amy Tan

“I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.”

Heart Long Form Quiet

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.”

Mean Form Courses Lost Quiet Forgotten Contrary Nostalgia

Author:Milan Kundera

“There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen Islanzadí, and a hundred different manners in which to greet those around you, if it’s not better to just remain quiet.” “With all your customs,” Eragon risked saying, “it seems as though you’ve only made it easier to offend people.” A smile flickered across her lips. “Perhaps.”

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.”

Made Soul Stories Moving Form Night Imagination Enemy Lovers Quiet Six Letters Twenties Depth Stranger Senses Tales Your Soul Fragile Dazzle Fragile Things Strangers And Friends

Author:Neil Gaiman

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