Silent Quotes

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

The Inspiration You Seek Is Already Within You. Be Silent And Listen.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists].

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world.

The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can.

Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.

The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?” Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical manoeuvre. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

During war, the laws are silent.

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

Even the ignorant may appear very worthy, If they keep silent before the learned.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.