Silent Quotes

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

Listening begins with being silent.

You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

...I will not be silent any longer.

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

Music is one of the sharpest blades that we have to cut through the thick entangled web of the external mind and lead us back into the silent cave of our own Heart.

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself.

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent.

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

My father has been the silent force behind my success. My mother has been a constant source of guidance in my career.

Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

We have to be the media when media is silent

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.

Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.

I try to meditate every day for at least 5 minutes. I put my phone on silent, sit in quiet and try and find my center.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.

A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.

The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.

How silent are the winds!

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.