Reticent Quotes: top 28 famous quotes about Reticent

Reticent Quotes & Sayings

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Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. — Theodor Adorno

You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? 'Never complain, never explain. — Amanda Craig

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome. — Margaret J. Wheatley

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point. — Anne Lamott

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes — John Ashbery

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. — Abraham Lincoln

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing. — Prince Philip

The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle. — E. M. Forster

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus. — Rebecca West

The reticent volcano keeps
His never slumbering plan -
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man. — Emily Dickinson

Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step. — Graeme Murphy

Excellence is the name of the game ... — Judith Jamison

People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it. — Paul A. Offit

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies. — Dennis Miller

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to. — Robert Rauschenberg

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. — Ted Malloch

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world. — Ted Olson

the cross should make us all reticent to declare who is cursed by God. — Rodney Reeves

I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe. — Maggie Stiefvater

English music is white - it evades everything. — Edward Elgar

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. — Georg Brandes

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent. — B.F. Skinner

People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past. — Adrian McKinty

In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing. — Norman MacCaig

I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion. — Shirley Hazzard

You'll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out — John C. Maxwell

When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow. — Tim LaHaye