Quietness Of Nature Quotes & Sayings

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution. — Lucan

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention - but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy. — Cassandra Clare

I feel like everything does happen for a reason, and I can totally look back on my career and the decisions I've made and how it sort of worked itself out. — Judy Greer

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska. — Stephen King

There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation. — James Martineau

Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans. — Munia Khan

She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so delicate that it must be nourished and cared for that it might be fulfilled. Alien to the world, it had to live where it could not be at home; avid for tenderness and quiet, it had to feed upon indifference and callousness and noise. It was a nature that, even in the strange and inimical place where it had to live, had not the savagery to fight off the brutal forces that opposed it and could only withdraw to a quietness where it was forlorn and small and gently still. — John Edward Williams

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write. — Mary Oliver

This prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. — William Wordsworth

Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant, and to undertake that which surpasseth his power! — William Beckford

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them. — Fiona Apple

This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen. — Chanakya

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard. — Seth Rogen