Silent Quotes
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You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.
Bono U2 -
I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.
N.J. Berrill
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One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'
Daya Mata -
I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.
Sadegh Hedayat -
God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.
Brenda Shoshanna -
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
Rumi -
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
William Shakespeare -
And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.
William Cullen Bryant -
Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.
Seneca the Younger -
Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
Alfred Austin -
“The righteous believers either speak about good things or they keep silent.”
Bilal Philips -
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.
Blaise Pascal
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Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.
Rachel Caine -
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Honore de Balzac -
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
Freya Stark -
That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
William Shakespeare -
I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.
Sylvia Kristel -
Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.
Erik Larson -
“One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the same.”
Alain de Benoist -
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.
Thomas Carlyle