Be Silent Quotes

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.

Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

When you step into that boat you have made a silent commitment to your team that you will do everything in your power to help them win.

All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone.

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.

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.

When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.

When one is silent, those around speak even more.

I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it.

Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

No fool can be silent at a feast.

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the world.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .

The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?