John Edgar Wideman

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

American Writer

Ramana Maharshi

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

Indian Philosopher

Bryant H. McGill

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

American Author

Quiescent describes something that’s temporarily inactive but may become active again.

Latent Potential

Commonly used in scientific contexts, like biology or geology, to describe inactivity.

Scientific Usage

'Quiescent' does not mean something has stopped forever, just for now.

Not Permanent

Describes a situation or environment that is quietly inactive and calm.

Subdued Atmosphere

Quiescent can refer to a person's mood, suggesting a peaceful emotional state.

Emotional State

'Quiescent' implies a temporary calm, not to be confused with someone's unchanging nature.

Not Synonymous

 all of it's maneuvers, it records all the things that are felt, all the bounces on the surface, everything, everything eight days later drives off, touches a rock and it's memory got full. And once its memory got full, the computer wouldn't boot up. And we actually told it to erase it's memory, threw all of that stuff through quiescent space away.

The Curious Life of a...

 mind being tired that is preventing your body from falling asleep how do we think about changing those well as I mentioned you know the hot bath effect can help meditation they'll has also been proven to be very useful meditation that actually tries to shift you over into that more quiescent state of the nervous

Why sleep matters now...

 sophisticated behaviors such as such as flight and one of the lessons we've been learning is that the physiology of cells that we've been studying for many years in quiescent flies is not the same as the physiology of those cells when the Flies actually engaged in active behaviors like flying and walking and so