Silent Quotes
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It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
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There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
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How wrong they were. I wasn’t a poor little thing at all. Even as early as this, such is the relief when pressure is removed, even in the very act of waving my last goodbyes, I found it quite difficult to pull a suitably regretful face, and I know I went back into the house, the silent house, the deliciously empty house, with steps so brisk that they nearly ran.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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During war, the laws are silent.
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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
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For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
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To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights.
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
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Right then I witnessed the world they lived in go completely silent. The world was flooding with their tears.
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
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All the great pleasures of life are silent.
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Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.
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It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
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As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
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Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.
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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
