Best 369 quotes in «silent quotes» category

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven.

Staying silent, staying away from him... that was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

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

The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

The greatest griefs are silent.

The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

The great silent majority.

The instructor is always silent when the test is given... ...When God is silent in your life... You are being tested.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

The Silent brothers are doing nude cartwheels in the hallways

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

The words "silent majority" are very descriptive of what is happening with me.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

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

To be silent is to be passive.

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.