Best quiet & greater Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.”

World War Loses Greater Quiet Mountain Ocean Strikes Civil War Unnecessary Nests Firing Legion Swarms Forts Hornets

Author:Robert Toombs

“Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.”

Art Remember Found Secret Greater Painting Quiet Aim Excellence Various Chosen Fewer Eloquence Singleness

Book:Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious

Source: Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious

“The answers to our prayers may not come dramatically, but we must find quiet moments to seek greater light and truth. And when we receive it, it is our responsibility to live it, to share it, and to defend it.”

May Moments Light Prayer Answers Responsibility Greater Share Quiet Our Prayers Quiet Moments

Author:Cheryl A. Esplin

“There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.”

Stills Real Greater Source Quiet Recognizing Real Power Source Of Strength Being Quiet

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.”

Men Way Shows Greater Fronts Quiet Appreciation Gentle Iron Peril

Book:The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War

Source: The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War

“I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.”

Thinking Feelings Greater Quiet Noise Harbors Greater Power

Author:Robert Redford

“It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.”

Done Difficult Loses Greater Quiet Advantage Mad Temper Being Done

Book:The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)

Source: The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)

“Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.”

People Sometimes Feelings Together Greater Tree Quiet Window Evening Peace And Quiet

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.”