Best 369 quotes in «silent quotes» category

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.

It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

It's weird to have to look at another co-worker and have a silent discussion - any discussion - about how you are going to touch their genitals or allow them to touch your genitals.

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

...I will not be silent any longer.

It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

Le silence est la plus grande perse  cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.

My new Boyfriend! Mr. Marmoset Hard and Silent! #peopledontknowthings

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Often a silent face has voice and words.

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

One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. If we are silent, who will take control? God will take control, but we will never let him take control until we trust him. Silence is intimately related to trust.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

Ooh, the silent treatment.