Quiet People Quotes

It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people. ~ Chetan Bhagat

I'm a people person when I'm out, but I'm a homebody. I like my time and peace and quiet. ~ Kid Cudi

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care. ~ Joyce Rachelle

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you're not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don't have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out. ~ Deb Caletti

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give. ~ Martina Cole

Quiet people often have a weather sense that loud people lack. They feel the wind-changes of conversations, and shiver in the chill of unspoken resentments. ~ Frances Hardinge

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people. ~ Walton Goggins

Quiet people has the loudest minds. ~ Stephen Hawking

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers. ~ Ron Chernow

Woodrow don't mention nothing he can keep from mentioning. You couldn't call him a mentioner. ~ Larry McMurtry

He's usually so quiet, but he's talking now, and when quiet people open their mouths the whole world listens. ~ Lisa Taddeo

When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf. ~ Courtney Milan

Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak? ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them. ~ Dee Dee Ramone

I honestly think there are two kinds of quiet people. There's the kind like me, who are full of storms and spinning gears. And then there's the kind like Olivia, who is the actual personification of an ocean on a sunny day. I don't mean that she's simple. There's just something peaceful about her. ~ Becky Albertalli

I tend to be drawn to people who are similar. Very independent. And the ones who aren't, it doesn't work. It doesn't last. I'm drawn to quiet people – certainly I am now. ~ Laura Marling

The quiet people just do their work. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Unleash your mind; for sometimes it's so much better than being quiet. ~ Sijdah Hussain

A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger ... ~ Rumi

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all. ~ Claire Tomalin

I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we understand so many natural processes, we have no need for such solutions. I can't for the life of me see how the postulate of an Almighty God helps us in any way. What I do see is that this assumption leads to such unproductive questions as why God allows so much misery and injustice, the exploitation of the poor by the rich and all the other horrors He might have prevented. If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit. Religion is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against the people. Hence the close alliance between those two great political forces, the State and the Church. Both need the illusion that a kindly God rewards - in heaven if not on earth - all those who have not risen up against injustice, wh ~ Paul A.M. Dirac

Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit. ~ Joyce Rachelle

This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny. ~ Henning Mankell

Not all who are silent do not want to talk. ~ Debasish Mridha

Around the world–even in some of the countries most troubled by poverty or civil war or pollution–many thoughtful people are making a deep, concerted search for a way to live in harmony with each other and the earth. Their efforts, which rarely reach the headlines, are among the most important events occurring today. Sometimes these people call themselves peace workers, at other times environmentalists, but most of the time they work in humble anonymity. They are simply quiet people changing the world by changing themselves. ~ Eknath Easwaran

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting ... and usually worth the wait. ~ Kirsten Miller

Two quiet people are not very fun together. ~ Kelly Blatz

a still water that ran deep." I still don't know what she meant by that, except quiet people did exude some illusion of mystery that kept you wondering just what they really were beneath the surface. ~ V.C. Andrews

Maybe it's true that shared trauma brings people closer together-a common hardship, a battle to survive-because when times are quiet people relax and go their own separate ways. They're lulled into believing they've got everything under control and don't need what they did before. ~ Laura Wiess

With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours. ~ Juliet Marillier

Quieting your mind is the doorway to a peaceful soul. ~ Clyde Lee Dennis

Quiet people have the loudest minds ~ Steven Hawkings

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet. ~ Neil Gaiman

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. ~ Patricia Highsmith

No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death! ~ H.G.Wells

I thought I was inventing my own lot of imaginary aliens​, and I was only describing the Senoi. It is not only th Captain Davidsons who can be found in the unconscious, if one looks. The quiet people who do not kill each other are there, too. It seems that a great deal is there, the things we most fear (and therefore deny), the things we most need (and therefore deny). I wonder, couldn't we start listening to our dreams, and our children dreams? "Where did you fall to, and what did you discover? ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I remember a time in a class on a cold winter morning a Japanese girl came with a surgical mask & I thought "wow people would go to extremes NOT to get sick in Japan" afterwards on a break I approached her & asked in a cynical manner: why the mask? Are you afraid of catching a cold? & then she said "in Japan you use it when YOU are under the weather & you don't want other people to get sick, it is the polite thing to do" wow! that's a lesson I will never forget ~ Pablo

We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled. ~ George Bird Grinnell

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently. ~ Ray Dalio

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne.
'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.'
'Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne. ~ L.M. Montgomery

The problem with revolution, with the wave of violence it carries with it, is that it's like a flash flood - it sweeps everything away, and nothing looks the same as it once dd. And you think this is good, change was what you wanted in the first place, change was what you needed. But suddenly you have a country you must govern, people whose basic needs must be met. You must stabilize a currency... reform a constitution. Those are not the things young men dream of. They dream of dying for their country; dream of honor in battle. No one dreams about sitting at a desk and arguing over phrases. ~ Chanel Cleeton

I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them. ~ Claudia Black

The question, then, the art, the task, the search, the challenge, the invitation is for you and me to become more and more the kind of people who are aware of the divine presence, attuned to the ruach, ~ Rob Bell

You're Chris Kyle?" said the man.
"Uh, yeah?" answered Chris.
The man handed Chris a piece of paper. "You've been served," he intoned in an overly dramatic voice.
Jesse Ventura had decided to sue Chris, claiming he had been defamed by his statements. According to Jesse, the incident never happened.
One of the unique aspects of the lawsuit was that it charged Chris with "unjust enrichment." In layman's terms, as I understood it, this meant that Jesse claimed people bought the book because he talked about decking him.
So all that information about Chris's childhood, his days as a cowboy, his time in Iraq, his medals, the people he saved, the people he couldn't save, his difficulty transitioning home, all the things I said in the book about raising the kids, how hard it was to get on without him…all of those things weren't the reason people bought the book? They were interested in the four hundred or so words tucked toward the back about a fight that didn't even name the principal-details that anyone could find for free on the Internet?
Awesome.
Chris wasn't worried about the lawsuit. He believed what he said and had witnesses who remembered the incident as he did.
It was an issue that would smolder for more than two years, and cause a great deal of pain. ~ Taya Kyle

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself. ~ Theodore Zeldin

Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are. ~ Mother Teresa

Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict. ~ David Boaz

I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer. ~ Darren Aronofsky

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think. ~ Tom Wilson

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems. ~ Bill Joy

You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to ... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing ... I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing. ~ Nick Cave

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people, ~ Gabriela Mistral

I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can't employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school. ~ Douglas R. Oberhelman

You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can't normally do otherwise. ~ Jack LaLanne

While the American people have the impression that scientists are hard at work figuring out this complex matter of climate change, it's not actually that complicated. ~ Margaret D. Klein

'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that. ~ Idina Menzel

I just miss it. Reading. I miss reading." Stiles' face is turned in the other direction now. Away from Derek. Derek, who has never contemplated that reading isn't a given for everyone in this country. Up until now, he has assumed that some people love to read and those who don't like it deserve longer jail sentences if they ever commit a crime. ~ Vendelin

Depression is the ultimate state of disconnection, not just between people but between one's mind and one's feelings. ~ Parker J. Palmer

Life is no play. We meet people once, and never see them again. There is no shape to events, no point at which we turn to the audience for their praise. ~ Neil Gaiman

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that. ~ Ben E. King

That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think that's bullshit. I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that they'll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person. ~ Chevy Stevens

It takes brains not to make money," Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem's signature. "Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money. ~ Joseph Heller

Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. ~ Bram Stoker

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think. ~ Jane Austen

White people have always shown their superiority over blacks with their feet, moving out of black neighborhoods with the fear that their kids will turn into one of them. And now, through the magic of MTV, damned if it didn't turn out that way! ~ Bill Maher

Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open. ~ David Spade

When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by. ~ Mac DeMarco