“We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.” HumansMomentsBigsSoundCitiesSilenceStrangeQuietBreathsFellowsNoiseInstantSecondsSunlightTrafficMiraculousFootstepsBig Cities Author:Dorothy Day
“We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.” HumansAnimalFrontsQuietSoldierInstantZoneMarchHuman AnimalMoody Book:Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front Source: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
“My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.” MindRealStatesBodyMovingGivenPiecesMovementPaintingQuietHorseInstantState Of MindGestures Author:Deborah Butterfield
“In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of our own activity. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work with expecting immediate reward, to love without an instant satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition. It is only when we are detached from ourselves that we can be at peace with ourselves.” OrderResultsSpecialActivityQuietRewardsSatisfactionRecognitionSettlingInstantExpectingDetachedSettling Down Author:Thomas Merton
“Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingMindHeartDoeSometimesRunningGrowsHoursForgetHappenedQuietAbsenceIntimacyMake SenseDawnInstantContinentsPausesIntegratingSymmetry Book:A Stone Boat: A Novel Source: A Stone Boat: A Novel
“The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.” PeopleBookWarSchoolRememberBoysCenturyFrontsQuietWesternSoldierClassicInstant20th CenturyClassic Book Author:Ann Widdecombe