Silent Quotes
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.
When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn't want to hear from it, it got chatty. It was alost as irritating as Fang.
The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.
Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.
I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!
Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.
If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.
We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.
There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.
Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.
People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.
Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.
With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends
Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.
Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it burns not with your song.
And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.
When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.
The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.
Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.
I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.