Quotes and Sayings About Silent
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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
-- Abraham Cowley -
We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.
-- Adam KokeshSource : "Gun activist Adam Kokesh charged" By Laurie Ure, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2013.
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There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
-- Agnetha FaltskogSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.
-- Alain Badiou -
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
-- Alexander Pope -
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'
-- Alfred Brendel -
Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
-- Alfred BrendelSource : "An A-Z of the piano: Alfred Brendel's notes from the concert hall" by Alfred Brendel, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.
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The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
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You are most powerful when you are most silent....
-- Alison McGhee -
A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.
-- Andre Bjerke -
Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
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I like my men like I like my coffee. Silent.
-- Anna KendrickSource : Twitter post from Jan 28, 2015
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
-- Annie BesantSource : Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”
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The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
-- Archibald MacLeishSource : Archibald MacLeish (1940). “A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish”, Boston, Mifflin
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I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.
-- Arsenius the Great -
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When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
-- Aubrey Plaza -
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
-- Azar Nafisi -
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
-- Bess TrumanSource : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.11, Truman State University Press
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I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
-- Bill Ayers -
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Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.
-- Blaise Pascal -
God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.
-- Brian Houston -
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If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.
-- Byron Katie -
When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there  must be no silent witnesses.
-- Carol Bellamy -
Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
-- Charles Lamb -
Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.
-- Charlton Heston -
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I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
-- Chen Guangcheng -
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
-- Chenjerai Hove