#quiet

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#hast #heart #our #quiet #rests

But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#forbidden #grief #happiness #inspirational #laws

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're 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. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#also #around #being #economic #emotional

I find it easier to work when it's quiet. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#find #i #quiet #work

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. ↗

— John Lindsay

#believe #business #cannot #cope #country

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#keep #knows #man #quiet #right

When we lose our liberties, it does not happen in one dramatic moment, but gradually and quietly. ↗

— John E. Moss

#dramatic #gradually #happen #liberties #lose

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#every man #man #man needs #needs #nymph

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#i #i can #live #lot #now

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#away #cars #children #crayons #drawing