Silent Quotes
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It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.
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Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.
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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.
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Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang
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I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighborhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swollen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children who clung to their skirts and wanted to be picked up. And, good God, they were ten, at most twenty years older than me.
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It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
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Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.
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The daily standard of unlivability isn’t news. So when the exceptional passes, everything is silent and everything continues to rot.
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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.
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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
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I'd leave London only for Man United, the club of my dreams. For Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on the bench.
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It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.
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You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.
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When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now
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The value of being silent: I never miss an opportunity to say nothing.
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I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
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Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.
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Ooh, the silent treatment.
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I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today.
