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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automatic charisma and was a very verbal person, he always played those more silent characters and played within the scene and never overacted.
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Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
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I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
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I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.
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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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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
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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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Right then I witnessed the world they lived in go completely silent. The world was flooding with their tears.
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All the great pleasures of life are silent.
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During war, the laws are silent.
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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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While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
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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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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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It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain 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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Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.
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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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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.
