Silent Quotes
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Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.
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Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.
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Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can’t send any other way can be heard.
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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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Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang
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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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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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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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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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Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
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True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.
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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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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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You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.
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Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.
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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 sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
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I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
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You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
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Ooh, the silent treatment.
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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.
