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.
Isaac Watts
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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
William A. Clark
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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.
Abraham Isaac Kook
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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.
George Horace Lorimer
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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.
Neil Diamond
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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.
Hannah Arendt
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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.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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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.
Daniel Espinosa
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
Abraham Lincoln
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Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
Seneca the Younger
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The world was so silent. There was a barrier between me and the world, and I thought for a moment that the world had never wanted me and now it was taking the opportunity to get rid of me.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
