Silent Quotes

Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.

Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a moment to accept with silent dignity.

I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace.

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

When you become present, your mind is silent. There is no agenda. You are not holding onto anything. You are not seeking anything. You are just here with what is, and it is enough.

Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.

The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.

I live alone, so I dont really talk to anyone once Im home. I have some silent nights.

My first ball I ever got from a big-league player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength- Drizzt Do'Urden

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.

For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

A silent lover is one who doesn't know his job.

Silent guns have virtue.

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

The soul lives there in the silent breath.

Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.