Jane Austen Quotes
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
Randall Terry
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Frances Bean Cobain
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
Pat Nixon
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
Sam Smith
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It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.
S. Truett Cathy
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Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
Bryan Adams
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Her phone rang again. “What?” she snapped as she answered it. Myrnin, of course. “Are you on your way?” “No!” “Claire, there are things to do.” “Here, too,” she said. “And I’m staying here, believe me.” Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, “Bob would be very disappointed in you.” “Bob the spider?” “He looks at you like a mother, you know. I’m surprised at your lack of work ethic. Think of the example you set for—” She hung up on him and turned the phone on vibrate and relaxed in Shane’s arms.
Rachel Caine
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
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Gains in commodities provided a positive backdrop for the Canadian dollar.
Ian Stannard
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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
Vincent Cassel
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
Hank Azaria
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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
Jane Austen
