Be Silent Quotes

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.

We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream.

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

I enjoy winning and very much dislike losing- but I did not allow either of them to obsess me. I was a silent loser, believing that if you won you said little, and if you lost you said even less

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

To hear, one must be silent.

I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.

Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.