Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Votes: 6
Martin Luther King, Jr.Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Votes: 6
Abraham LincolnAnd they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. Votes: 4
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. Votes: 4
Elie WieselOf every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. Votes: 4
William Wetmore StoryA hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring. Votes: 4
Sara TeasdaleThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. Votes: 4
Baruch SpinozaLife, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness. Votes: 3
Zohra SehgalSilent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement. Votes: 3
C.J. RedwineThe greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. Votes: 3
Martin Luther King, Jr.The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. Votes: 3
Martin Luther King Jr.I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. Votes: 3
Barry LevinsonMusic expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Votes: 2
Victor HugoAll tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Votes: 2
Edmund BurkeThough there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent. Votes: 1
Brian HoustonWhen the soul communes with itself the lip is silent. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonHistory is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. Votes: 0
Paul EldridgeThe silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodPerseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauI am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener. Votes: 0
William Hamilton MaxwellSilence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalTarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication. Votes: 0
Walton GogginsYou create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. Votes: 0
Michael Bassey JohnsonThose who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. Votes: 0
Thornton WilderWhen you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first. Votes: 0
Michel HazanaviciusThe most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. Votes: 0
William HazlittStupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable. Votes: 0
Honore de Balzac...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight. Votes: 0
Herman MelvilleThe words "silent majority" are very descriptive of what is happening with me. Votes: 0
Donald TrumpI like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonA well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent. Votes: 0
George HerbertEven the proud in all their boasting, must fall silent before the wise. Votes: 0
Justin K. McFarlane BeauConvulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge. Votes: 0
John TillotsonFlowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear. Votes: 0
May SartonThere are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliThe summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovThe freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent. Votes: 0
Murray RothbardI have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent. Votes: 0
Arsenius the GreatThe Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray. Votes: 0
Algernon BlackwoodIt is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldSometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent. Votes: 0
Criss JamiBeing silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions. Votes: 0
Andrei TarkovskyWe can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts. Votes: 0
Ruth St. DenisThe surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEven the ignorant may appear very worthy,If they keep silent before the learned. Votes: 0
ThiruvalluvarBefore the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again. Votes: 0
Robert E. HowardIf I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant? Votes: 0
Ibn TaymiyyahThe Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men. Votes: 0
Charles Godfrey LelandOur lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! Votes: 0
Pascal MercierHer silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle. Votes: 0
John MiltonJournalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault Votes: 0
Henry Anatole GrunwaldSometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent. Votes: 0
Miguel de UnamunoIn this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace. Votes: 0
John MuirEvery life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielThe world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it. Votes: 0
Philip YanceyStaying silent, staying away from him... that was the hardest thing I've ever done. Votes: 0
Rick RiordanUsually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. Votes: 0
HoraceConsider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon. Votes: 0
Tom RobbinsFragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonWhere the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent Votes: 0
Thomas CampbellUsually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person Votes: 0
HoraceIn the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThe deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care. Votes: 0
William AlexanderThe sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. Votes: 0
Thomas E. SniegoskiTo remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanOur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King JrA good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauA poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. Votes: 0
Rufus Wilmot GriswoldBe silent when you are criticised so that you can hear the critiques well! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWhoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism, Votes: 0
Max HorkheimerSince I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. Votes: 0
Rainer Maria RilkeThe wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningThe role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence. Votes: 0
Michael CardIn the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond... Votes: 0
Khalil GibranIf we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate. Votes: 0
Jerry FalwellMusic expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent Votes: 0
Victor HugoNo reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example. Votes: 0
Hosea BallouSleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThe words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-. Votes: 0
Emily DickinsonEarth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height. Votes: 0
William MorrisI haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. Votes: 0
Bill AyersPardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women. Votes: 0
SophoclesThe beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. Votes: 0
Richard Le GallienneIf you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. Votes: 0
Zora Neale HurstonThe voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution. Votes: 0
Harriet MartineauMy loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranIt was a Saturday, soft and silent, when the Wind spoke for the first time. Votes: 0
James Hugh ComeySilence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent. Votes: 0
Alfred BrendelThere was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me. Votes: 0
Agnetha FaltskogWhen the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. Votes: 0
Martin NiemollerBe silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThe path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them? Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonPhotographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. Votes: 0
Isabel AllendePoetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its readerâs head. Votes: 0
Christopher LogueI should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotFaded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart! Votes: 0
Alfred AustinWe cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith. Votes: 0
Abraham KuyperWhere do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small? Votes: 0
O. R. MellingTime doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life. Votes: 0
Christopher MarloweAll round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim. Votes: 0
Bryan ProcterWhenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoDumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareRomans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareSome of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonWhy to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover? Votes: 0
Abraham CowleyAn event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. Votes: 0
Edmund BurkeWith awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead. Votes: 0
George CrabbeWriting at least is a silent meditation even though you're going a hundred miles an hour. Votes: 0
Jack KerouacMelancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it. Votes: 0
James BoswellBut if Satan speaks sometimes, God keep silent, always. We have to find the answers alone. Votes: 0
Rene BarjavelThe next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw. Votes: 0
Adam JohnsonNow, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? Votes: 0
Kirk DouglasThe river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul... Votes: 0
Hermann HesseWho waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow. Votes: 0
Helen Hunt JacksonWhen the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanI have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak. Votes: 0
Vaslav NijinskyI was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies. Votes: 0
Keith JohnstoneYesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret. Votes: 0
Kahlil GibranThe birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too Votes: 0
Robert HassThe pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThat's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts. Votes: 0
David LevithanThe greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul. Votes: 0
David O. McKayWhole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer. Votes: 0
George WhitefieldThe lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. Votes: 0
Edmund WallerThose of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health. Votes: 0
Elisabeth Tova BaileyNever forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two. Votes: 0
Indira GandhiLet him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThis world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher. Votes: 0
SivanandaI used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could. Votes: 0
E. G. MarshallWhen the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses. Votes: 0
Carol BellamyCats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird! Votes: 0
Pliny the ElderSo the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie. Votes: 0
John DrydenThe sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalI hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable. Votes: 0
Pamela Hansford JohnsonWe do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together. Votes: 0
Georgette LeblancThat the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty Votes: 0
David GutersonWe hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. Votes: 0
Berthold AuerbachAnd as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranMyrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you. Votes: 0
Rachel CaineDo not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you. Votes: 0
Howard ThurmanAre our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.) Votes: 0
William BoydWith today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films. Votes: 0
Bob HopeI actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's. Votes: 0
Marcel DzamaThe very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room. Votes: 0
Thomas HarrisIt has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent. Votes: 0
Robert EvansDon't say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak. Votes: 0
Adam CappaMay we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisSilence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die. Votes: 0
Tahar DjaoutI may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent. Votes: 0
Emma GoldmanThe more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaI was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken. Votes: 0
Sylvia KristelI live alone, so I dont really talk to anyone once Im home. I have some silent nights. Votes: 0
Patina MillerWhen the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals. Votes: 0
Clara ZetkinI live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights. Votes: 0
Patina MillerCan honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?
Thomas GrayThe triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.
Anna AkhmatovaOnward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide.
Harvey RiceA mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
Henry Ward BeecherOh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.
Mark HartWhat is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?
Mary C. AmesAs important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.
Robert BreaultBlest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Thomas JeffersonTrue meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
AdyashantiHorses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.
Monty RobertsThere is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.
Pope FrancisIt cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him
Charles SpurgeonThe best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
Khalil GibranI really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.
John UpdikeLet us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.
Leyla ZanaHow beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
Lord DunsanyIt is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
PlutarchI enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.
Robert BreaultI'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
Cate BlanchettI think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them
Edward James OlmosBoredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Gustave FlaubertIf a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.
Jess WalterI have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
Paul RyanSometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.
PLO LumumbaIt is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
PlutarchAll beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds left silent by laying to rest all things.
BuddhadasaA little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
Mahatma GandhiI had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
Malala YousafzaiWhite bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.
Pablo NerudaThe moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
William BlakeWe will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.
Adam KokeshTo remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
Alexis de TocquevilleThere is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
Ally CondieA silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.
Andre BjerkeIt is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
Jean de la BruyereThat which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
Ludwig WittgensteinThe genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.
Maharishi Mahesh YogiWilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
Mark TwainBut after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.
Suzanne CollinsDown the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.
Oscar WildeI understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, Iâd rather remain silent
Arthur RimbaudLearning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of ConstantinopleA deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality.
Graham KendallNever be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryIt is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
SaadiMay all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCalm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.
Swami VivekanandaUnity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
Thomas CarlyleNo more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.
Andrew Lloyd WebberIn individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Barbara TuchmanIF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.
David MametThe silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.
Francois de la NoueSome women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.
P. J. O'RourkeSometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.
Robert Hass