Quiet Life Quotes

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  • She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy.Yes, that sounded good.

    Nice   Fall   Memorable  
  • I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

  • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived very quiet lives. Maybe we don't know a lot about a lot them but what I'm saying is the saints of the 21st century are gonna be regular people - people who've kissed other people. They're gonna be married people.

    Thinking   People   Saint  
    Source: www.beliefnet.com
  • The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

    Life   Wise   Silence  
  • I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

    Hands   Wife   Mind  
    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [116]
  • If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

    Typical   Steel   Nerves  
  • I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

  • And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

    Spring   Writing   Years  
  • I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

    Alarms   Quiet   Surprise  
    "Song: No Surprises (OK Computer)". January 12, 1998.
  • If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.

    Joy   Wish   Quiet  
    Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.87, SPCK
  • I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

    Men   Peaceful   Lovers  
    John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.817, e-artnow
  • It’s the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

    Steve Farrar (2006). “King Me: What Every Son Wants and Needs From His Father”, p.171, Moody Publishers
  • Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

    Life   Song   Men  
    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press
  • Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

    Eye   Men   Looks  
    Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.35, Lulu Press, Inc
  • The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

    Character   Mean   Order  
    F.B. Meyer (2002). “Elijah: The Secret of his Power”, p.14, CLC Publications
  • There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to fulfillment. He tries falling in love, that doesn't work. He goes to war and searches for military glory, that doesn't work. He does the quiet life of a farmer. He's always active. That's what I loved about him, he's always looking, searching. He's really inquisitive.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

    William Drummond, P. C., Peter Cunningham (1852). “Poems by ... W. D. [Edited, with a life by P. C., i.e. Peter Cunningham.]”, p.199
  • I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

    Book   Home   Boys  
    "'I've had enough passion to last me a lifetime': Patsy Kensit on why she'll never marry again". Interview with Olivia Buxton, www.mirror.co.uk. April 21, 2012.
  • A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

  • I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

    Twitter post from Jul 06, 2012
  • So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

    Quiet   Life Is   Tweet  
  • When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

  • Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

    Hey   Want   Quiet  
  • I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

    Taken   Hard Work   Gay  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

  • The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

    1935 Econometrica,'The Theory of Monopoly'.
  • It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

  • The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

    People   Sake   Facts  
    Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.49, Pan Macmillan
  • I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

    Teacher   Book   Rama  
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