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Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots.
— Lex Allen
We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.
— William S. Burroughs
Energy in expression is silent. The knowing of what no words can say. A chasm of gravity could ever hold,; Weightless, it is part of all living things
— S.L. Northey
You have to be silent, but ready
— Rosen Topuzov
After all, a silent fart has a smell that really sticks!
— W.W. Wright
Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue?
— Anonymous
concept: me, wandering through the morning fog of a flowery hillside. the world is still and silent and calm
— L.J. Buchanan
She is dying because she said.
She is dying for the sake of the word.
It is her body, silent
and fingerless, writing this poem. — Margaret Atwood
She is dying for the sake of the word.
It is her body, silent
and fingerless, writing this poem. — Margaret Atwood
It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
The mind that knows it is destroyed by time. — Wallace Stevens
That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
The mind that knows it is destroyed by time. — Wallace Stevens
Time renders all peope and all things silent. But I will speak of you, of all of you, for all the time I have.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek.
— Daniel Arsand
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
— Nancy Willard
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
— Margaret Atwood
But there sometimes comes a moment, a small, silent white explosion of awareness.
— Anne Rivers Siddons
The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth.
— Rolf Jacobsen
I want to tell her that's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through all the silent parts.
— John Green
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
— William Butler Yeats
The instructor is always silent when the test is given ... When God is silent in your life ... You are being tested.
— Rick Warren
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
— Chogyam Trungpa
How silent are the winds!
— Bryan Procter
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
— Khalil
Silent. This was
— Brian L. Weiss
The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative.
— Kahlil Gibran
The Silent brothers are doing nude cartwheels in the hallways
— Cassandra Clare
Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
Sometimes You Just Gotta Stay Silent Cause No Words Can Explain The Shit Thats Going On In Your Mind And Heart
— Bryant McGill
Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.
— Julie Gregory
Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.
— Sri Chinmoy
There is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure.
— Nikki Rowe
A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.
— Holly Lisle
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
— Mitt Romney
I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.
— Rachel Zucker
She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.
— Jonathan Lethem
When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.
— Janet Malcolm
Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!
— Pascal Mercier
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
— Kevin Brownlow
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists].
— John Lennox
If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.
— Kenneth Logan
Modeling is really silent acting.
— Arizona Muse
Be thy sleep
Silent as night is, and as deep. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Silent as night is, and as deep. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man speaks to the stars!
— Rudolf Steiner
Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Silent is an anagram of listen.
— Johnny Rich
Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast." ~ Samuel Johnson
— J.J. McAvoy
The hidden clash of a silent conflict like this is far harder to bear than an open quarrel.
— Rabindranath Tagore
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
— Sara Teasdale
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
— Martin Heidegger
You will be tempted to think this ordeal marks you as weak. Instead, remember it as proof of your strength.
— Cassandra Clare
He doesn't have so much learning ... or any special education either; he's silent, and he grins at you silently
that's how he gets by. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
that's how he gets by. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever.
— Sylvia Plath
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
— Barbara Tuchman
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Perhaps to love is to learn
to walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
Like the oak and linden of fable.
To learn to see — Octavio Paz
to walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
Like the oak and linden of fable.
To learn to see — Octavio Paz
Being silent for long periods of time was a gift of mine. Most may not see it like that, but it actually takes a strong will to cultivate said talent.
— Mary E. Twomey
Every heart has a hidden treasure. A secret wish. A silent dream. A special goal to long for. No matter how distant it may seem.
— Jill Wolf
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.
— Christoph Martin Wieland
At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times,
love is the strongest voice you can always rely on. — Soar
love is the strongest voice you can always rely on. — Soar
I see you, even when you hide from the rest of the world. I hear you, even when you're silent.
— Deborah Harkness
I got my start in silent radio.
— Bob Monkhouse
The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
— Khalil Gibran
she prays to feel as powerful
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now — Beth Morey
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now — Beth Morey
Last night I fell asleep quickly, into a place beyond sleep, deep and silent, the place I imagine caterpillars go to turn into butterflies.
— Sarah Willis
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
— Catherine Of Siena
If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.
— Veronica Purcell
You can choose to create a drama and get what you acted for or remain silent and get what you planned for.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.
— Rajneesh
People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.
— Amy Goodman
Well, then, eliminate the people, curtail them, force them to be silent. Because the European Enlightenment is more important than people.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.
— Jessica White
And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth.
— Kahlil Gibran
Heart's wave could not curl and break beautifully into the foam of spirit, unless the ageless silent rock of destiny stood in its path.
— Holderlin
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
— Jack Kerouac
Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers.
— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople