Silent Quotes
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I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
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Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.
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We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.
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Hope will never be silent.
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And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.
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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.
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.
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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.
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Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
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The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
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You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
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Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.
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There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.
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And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.
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In the time of the seventh Fire new people will emerge. They will retrace their steps to find what was left by the side of the trail long ago. Their steps will take them to the Elders, who they will ask to guide them on their journey. But many of the Elders will have fallen asleep. They will awaken to this new time with nothing to offer. Some of the Elders will be silent out of fear. But most of the Elders will be silent because no one will ask anything of them.
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Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world.
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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Swiftly gliding in, blushing like a girl, a tall thin stripling held out both his hands; and although I could hardly believe as I looked at his flushed feminine, and artless face that it could be the Poet, I returned his warm pressure. After the ordinary greetings and courtesies he sat down and listened. I was silent from astonishment: was it possible that this mild-mannered beardless boy could be the veritable monster of the world?–ex-communicated by the Fathers of the Church, deprived of his civil rights by the fiat of a grim Lord Chancellor, discarded by every member of his family,and denounced by the rival sages of our literature as the founder of a Satanic school? I could not believe it; it must be a hoax.
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Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.
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A silent man will die in the silence of his foolishness.
