Silent Quotes
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The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
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What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are 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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The value of being silent: I never miss an opportunity to say nothing.
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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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O beautiful human life! Tears come to my eyes as I think of it. So beautiful, so inexpressibly beautiful! The song should never be silent, the dance never still, the laugh should sound like water which runs forever.
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It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.
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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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I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.
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The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.
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The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?
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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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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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Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.
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I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
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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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She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
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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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In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
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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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Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
