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source: Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.368, St. Martin's Press

topic: Air, Curiosity, Mixing, Unspoken

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

- Ahmad Shamloo

topic: Silence, Secret Love, Deeds, Unspoken

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

- Alexandra Adornetto

source: Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.12, Macmillan

topic: Inspirational, Life, People, Unspoken

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

- Vera Farmiga

topic: Important, Lines, Between The Lines, Unspoken

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

- Rose Wilder Lane

source: Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.13, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Home, Challenges, Resistance, Unspoken

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

- Andrea Levy

source: Andrea Levy (2010). “Small Island: A Novel”, p.446, Macmillan

topic: Two, Long, Would Be, Unspoken

I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

topic: Girl, Boys, Awkward, Verge, Unspoken

Theres this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldnt be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

- Margot Kidder

topic: Stars, Ordinary, Clubs, Unspoken

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

- Marian Wright Edelman

source: "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

topic: Sadness, President Kennedy's Assassination, Promise, Unspoken, President Kennedy

The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule.

- Bree Despain

source: Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.16, Egmont UK

topic: Broken, Promise, Problem, Unspoken

I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Secret Places, Space, Feelings, Left Hanging, Unspoken

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.17, Harper Collins

topic: Real, Magic, Unseen, Muttering, Plumbing

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

- Marian Wright Edelman

source: "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

topic: Unfinished Work, Long, Remembrance, Unspoken Words, Today And Tomorrow

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

- Charles Dudley Warner

topic: Women, Imagination, Sentimental, Unspoken

Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.

- Eva Paterson

topic: Brother, Moving, Butterfly, Unspoken

Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.

- Lydia Millet

topic: Book, Unique, Grace, Enigmatic, Unspoken

I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."

- Cesar Milstein

topic: Imagination, Worry, Max, Unspoken

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

- Pamela Stephenson

topic: Husband, Book, Long, Unspoken

And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

source: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Wall, Bored To Death, Being Bored

Secrets that reside in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears.

- Josh Kilmer-Purcell

topic: Secret, Mind, Persons, Unspoken

His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

- Will Rogers, Jr.

topic: Children, Father, Men, Father Child, Unspoken

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

- Homer

topic: Wise, Wine, Men, Old Wine, Fine Wine

Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.

- Natasha Bedingfield

source: Song: Unwritten, Album: Unwritten, 2004

topic: Rain, Skins, Feels, Treat Yourself, Arms Wide Open

But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.

- Miljenko Jergovic

source: Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

topic: Sleep, Fighting, Silence, Unspoken Words, Unspoken

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).

- Derrick Bell

source: Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.5, Basic Books

topic: Life, Self Esteem, Commitment, Mesmerized, Challenging The Status Quo

In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.

- Billy Graham

topic: Country, Religious, Focus, Our Country, Unspoken

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

- Stanley Nelson Jr.

topic: Gun, Race, Ideas, Unspoken

One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.

- Annia Ciezadlo

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Country, Ignorance, Intellectual, Cosmopolitanism, Intellectual Life

What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No.1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them?

- Peggy Noonan

topic: Thinking, Government, Air, Rhetorical Question, Unspoken

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

- Sidney Poitier

topic: Pace, Walks, Happens, Unspoken

Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

- Matthew Pearl

topic: Eye, Ideas, Romance, Unspoken

It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.

- Mark Hart

source: Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.11, Franciscan Media

topic: Comfort, Ministry, Spouse, Unspoken

There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical rules, but I'm sure if you came to the Oscars in ripped jeans and a t-shirt they wouldn't throw you out. You would just look like a fool.

- Glen Hansard

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Nice, Jeans, Dresses, Ripped, Ripped Jeans

You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.

- Eva Longoria

source: "Eva Longoria Parker Shows Her Sexy Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. December 28, 2008.

topic: Ex Boyfriend, Periods, Unspoken Rules, Unspoken

Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

- Tian Dayton

topic: Powerful, Talking, Silence, Unspoken, Not Talking

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Communication, Triumph, Phrases, Desolate, Unspoken

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

- George Santayana

topic: Friendship, Sight, Giving, Unspoken

Going back to school is like going back in time. Immediately, for better or for worse, you must give up a little piece of your autonomy in order to become part of the group. And every group, of course, has its hierarchies and rules- spoken and unspoken. It is like learning to live once again in a family- which, of course, is the setting where all learning begins.

- Alice Steinbach

topic: Giving Up, School, Order, Going Back To School, Unspoken

Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.

- Tom Upton

source: Tom Upton (2008). “Mourning Doves”, p.139, Tom Upton

topic: Promise, Lasts, Next, Unspoken

There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

- Neal Shusterman

topic: Life, Fighting, Winning, Unspoken, Unspoken Rules

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