Best quiet & heard Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.”

Ifs Way Littles Mother Found Father Speak Voice Heard Brother Quiet Best Way Shut Up Older Brother Little Sister

Author:Peter Welch

“Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.”

Men Littles Pay Heard Citizens Quiet Taxes Clean Forgotten Debt Circles Virtuous Forgetfulness

Book:The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

“I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).”

Men Christian Silence Wise Heard Quiet Speech Orthodox Preacher Profitable Orthodox Christian

Author:Saint Basil

“That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.”

Giving Writing Stills Feelings Heard Feet Quiet Ink

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“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.”

“Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody left but Jesus. Observe this, for it is the same with us: when he is alone he is able to speak in the temple of the soul. If anyone else is speaking in the temple of your soul, Jesus will keep still, as if he were not at home. And he is not at home wherever there are strange guests-guests with whom the soul holds conversation, guests who are seeking to bargain. If Jesus is to speak and be heard, the soul must be alone and quiet.”

Ifs Stills Soul Home Able Jesus Left Speak Heard Strange Quiet Conversation Seeking Your Soul Temples Guests Bargains

Author:Meister Eckhart

“When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know; And, as in Eden Adam walked with God, When in that quiet aisle my feet have trod I have found peace among the silver trees, Known comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze Heard music in its whisper, and have known Most certainly that I was not alone!”

Knows Want I Can Found Known Heard Tree Feet Comfort Quiet Kissing Silver Adam Breeze Not Alone Eden Aisle Birch Trees

Author:Andrew Greeley

“Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."”

People Knows Want Kind Made Sometimes Speak Wish Fire Heard Quiet Complaining Burning Prophet Breasts Knowing God Wish You Deep Love Condemnation Jeremiah Fire Burning

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.”

Names Heard Quiet Awful Cartoonist

Author:Lynda Barry

“I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.”

Knows Mean Heard Quiet Superstar

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.”

Wells Enough Speak Voice Learning Heard Communication Quiet Shouting Our Words

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and has been so for many thousand years. I had a vision of a passing boat and heard some voices saying disquieting things. I heard a clock strike in some distant house... but in which house?... I long to quiet my anxious heart and stand beneath the sky's immensity. I long to pray... And one of all the stars must still exist. I do believe that I would know which one alone endured, and which like a white city stands at the ray's end shining in the heavens.”

“When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.”

Thinking Knows Eye Night Voice Dark Darkness Sun Happened Heard Tree Sky Cry Quiet Safe Lows Bird Clouds Burning Remembered Breasts Rays Nests Faded Grove Hurrying Murmuring

Book:Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

Source: Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.”

“The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.”

Ifs Firsts Kind Moments Dream Together Night Sound Rooms Silence Happened Heard Middle Strange Quiet Tiny Gaps Middle Of The Night Bad Dream Windowpane

Author:John Boyne

“Is the fire gone?" "Yes," I sighed. "Thank you, Edward." "I love you," he answered. "I know," I breathed, so tired. I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief.”

Knows World Sound Laughing Gone Fire Heard Love You Quiet Weak Tired My Favorite Relief

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who fade into the woodwork, who only think of the perfect answer after the fact, after they're back at home, who can never think of a story that anyone else will find interesting--is there not more depth and more meaning in them? You can see every letter of every untold story swimming on their faces, and all the signs of silence, dejection, and even defeat. You can even imagine your own face in those faces, can't you?”

Thinking Knows Looks Facts Stories Home Faces Answers Perfect Interesting Silence Know How Imagine Heard Quiet Creatures Letters Depth Defeat Swimming Fades Mute Untold Stories

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Wish Voice Behinds Steps Heard Quiet Sorry I'm Sorry Claire Shane Myrnin Quiet Voice

Book:Ghost Town

Source: Ghost Town

“And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.”

Ifs Enough Next Sound Pay Taken Doors Heard Quiet Eating Loud Locked Clicks

Author:Julia Quinn

“Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia, I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe he's heard of America, and he dreams of living in this land of freedom and opportunity! Someday, I'd like to meet that little boy... and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin's Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.”

Littles Dream America Opportunity Known Boys Heard Land Stupid Dad Quiet Russia Oppression Awful Someday Communist Censorship Beans Little Boys

Author:Bill Watterson

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