Best 369 quotes in «silent quotes» category

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.

Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender.

All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence.

Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

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

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

A sky full of silent suns.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

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

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

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

Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.

Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

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?

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

Don't say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak.

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

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

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.

God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

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

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.