quotes 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 -
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
-- Christopher Logue -
When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
-- Clara Zetkin -
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I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.
-- Confucius -
Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius
-- Conn Iggulden -
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
-- Criss Jami -
Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.
-- Cullen Hightower -
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The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
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That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty
-- David Guterson -
There's a reason why the form was originally silent
-- David Henry Hwang -
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
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Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
-- Denis Waitley -
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
-- Dionysius I of SyracuseSource : "Handy-book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.
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I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
-- Doris Day -
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
-- E. G. Marshall -
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
-- Earl Warren -
A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
-- Edwidge Danticat -
From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.
-- Eli Wallach -
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
-- Elie WieselSource : Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
-- Elie WieselSource : Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press
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Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!
-- Eliphas LeviSource : Eliphas Levi (2013). “The Ritual of Transcendental Magic”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag
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Take me someplace where we can be silent together.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
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I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.
-- Emma Goldman -
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
-- Epictetus -
In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.
-- Ernst TollerSource : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”
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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
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What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn -
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
-- Freya Stark -
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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
Oh, Herbert," she said pleadingly to her silent husband, "you must make him marry her! Call for the parson immediately! Look at them... they are...," she sputtered, "canoodling!
-- Gail Carriger -
The value of being silent: I never miss an opportunity to say nothing.
-- Garrison Wynn -
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With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.
-- George Crabbe -
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
-- George Whitefield -
All the great pleasures of life are silent.
-- Georges Clemenceau -
We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.
-- Georgette LeblancSource : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck”
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Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.
-- Gloria Allred -
The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.
-- Harriet Martineau -
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A parent has to be silent much of the time.
-- Helen Beardsley -
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
-- Helen Hunt JacksonSource : Helen Hunt Jackson, “Chance”
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Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault
-- Henry Anatole GrunwaldSource : "WikiLeaks and the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity" by James Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2010.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
-- Herta Muller -
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The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none
-- Holly Hunter -
A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.
-- Holly LisleSource : Holly Lisle (2001). “The Secret Texts”, p.50, Hachette UK
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
-- Howard ThurmanSource : John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.86, Mandeville Press
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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes its noisy way to your seat on the sofa.
-- Hugh Elliot -
If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?
-- Ibn Taymiyyah -
It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.
-- Ignatius of Antioch -
It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.
-- Ivan Panin -
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History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
-- J. Edwin Orr -
He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
-- Jack London -
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
-- James BoswellSource : James Boswell, Mark Harris (1981). “The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume”, McGraw-Hill Companies
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Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
-- Jane Powell -
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux; Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.
-- Jean M. AuelSource : Jean M. Auel (2013). “The Earth's Children Series 6-Book Bundle: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, The Land of Painted Caves”, p.2048, Bantam
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Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.
-- Jerry Lawler -