Silent Quotes
The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.
They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.
Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.
What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.
A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.
