Silent Quotes

When they remain silent, they cry out.

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

In times of war, the law falls silent.

Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.

Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.

Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.

Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.

Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration.

Bethlehem was just the beginning. I call Jesus Christ's next appearance, Bethlehem, Act 2. No silent night this time, however. The skies will open, trumpets will blast, and a new kingdom will begin.

In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.

Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!

Be silent when you are criticised so that you can hear the critiques well!

Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.

On the road to your target, move cleverly and silently; when you reached your target, be humble and silent!

Silent streets have many things to say.

There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to them!

To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face.

When she was like this, the wildness of her barely contained, it was hard to believe she'd come into his pack Silent, her emotions blockaded behind so much ice, it had infuriated his wolf.

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.

While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.

He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.

I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them.

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.

Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.