Quotation Explorer - 'Silent'

Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence? - Carl Sandburg
Shhhhhhhh..... Be silent. Silence your mind and listen.... Let the voice of your soul echo and shiiiiine! - Angie karan
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. - Joseph P. Thompson
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent. - Miguel de Unamuno
I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. - Robert Louis Stevenson
It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace... - Oksana Rus
For a moment, just be silent and feel the joy of life. - Debasish Mridha
If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was. - Martha Grimes
We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Every once in a while, large cities have narrow streets, silent passageways that allow your footsteps to echo in the stillness of the night, and it seems like everything is going back to the way it was, when there were only a few of us and we all knew each other and greeted each other on the street. - Jaume Cabré
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. - William Shakespeare
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. - Napoleon Hill
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right - Miguel de Unamuno
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. - George Eliot
Intuition is to develop a trust in yourself, and to the silent whisperings of your heart. If you trust yourself, you can trust others, you can trust existence. - Swami Dhyan Giten
Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart,In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart. - Ankita Singhal
Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in the boundaries of rational thought. - Deepak Chopra
When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air. - Dejan Stojanovic
The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul. - David O. McKay
When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. - James Joyce
Stamp-collectors are a strange, silent fish-like breed, of all ages, but only of the male sex; women, apparently, fail to see the peculiar charm of gumming bits of coloured paper into albums. - George Orwell
Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess. - Aisha Mirza
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words - Anonymous
He is Running and Shouting and teasing around ,people know that he is just a vamp on the ground. people no more fear him . But the one sitting silent with no sigh of talky move,people simply fear him because no one knows what destruction he can bring to one in the this bushy grass of violence. - yash hoskere
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. - Zora Neale Hurston
A man's heart is small, but it is surrounded by the immensity of its soul. Sometimes our words may appear silent, but they are certainly heading for infinity. - Walter William Safar
The key to wisdom is silent observation and reflection. - Debasish Mridha
Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just. - Dahlia Lithwick
When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The duty of the one who wants to be silent is to be silent, period! Give little thought to the cacophony of the masses when silence is the best option and silence will speak for itself - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Flowers carry not only beauty but also the silent song of love. You just have to feel it. - Debasish Mridha
In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent - Ambrose Bierce
But he couldn’t risk taking the helmet off. It was the only thing saving him from the firing squad. He was no longer able to keep his thoughts silent. No longer able to squash his misgivings about what he had done. - TC Avey
When you are having a difficult time, don’t lose your cool. Don’t hurry--be silent, listen, and think to find the way. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain. - Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison
Knowledge makes sounds; wisdom is silent. - Debasish Mridha
Books are silent, but have the ability to scream. - Bert McCoy
Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES. - Kishore Bansal
When the owl sings, the night is silent. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence) - Charles de Leusse
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. - William Shakespeare
I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to prophesize the time in which it might have fallen silent, how to attack its own virtue, and how to fall in love with its own dissolution and court its own end. - Jorge Luis Borges
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU. - Shannon L. Alder
We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts. - Ufuoma Apoki
Happiness is the silent purpose of all existence. - Debasish Mridha
I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences. - Antonia Perdu
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. - William Hazlitt
Adventures kept hidden, words kept silent. You became my greatest secret. And when you left, no one knew the source of the pain I felt. No one knew you existed, except my writhing heart. - Hubert Martin
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves a shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,and slips into the bosom of the lake:So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip into my bosom and be lost in me. - Alfred Tennyson
have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary - Kate Mullane Robertson
A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words. - Leslie Austin
The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Nothing touches your skin of sweat(meltdown of oceanic kisses)when the purple lightwhispers to the moon in silent moonlit clarity - Bear Step
You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us. - Rebecca Solnit
I love silent conversations accompanied by a soft caress on my skin and my head on your chest listening to your heart desires. - Nomthandazo Tsembeni
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
We ought to be silent and listen to the voice of God. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me. - Marty Rubin
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. - Fulton J. Sheen
It is time at last for all the gods to be silent. - Marty Rubin
I no longer hear the faint sound of my heart beat. Then I hear the sound of my fathers voice saying, come, be silent with me! - Jordan Hoechlin
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2AM where do i begin,Crying off my face again,The silent sound of lonliness,Wants to follow me to bed - Christina Perri
I do not have to hear your most favourite music.I hear your sweet silent music all the time.Petra Cecilia Maria HermansSeptember 10, 2016Amen - Petra Hermans
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara W. Tuchman
Of those who say nothing, few are silent. - Thomas Neill
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
I meet people and they enforce me their culture and then I choose to fly away and I meet other people and these people force me their religion and I wanna fly away. I meet other people, these people are silent, we begin to sing the song of the ocean and then we fly away together ~ - Grigoris Deoudis
I miss your silent stature, your avoided days of disaster, your present state of distress.I’m cinnamon, cloves and fire, you are the rested cedarwood of desire. - Coco J. Ginger
With you it's different, There isn't a catostrophic emotion of endorphines, but there is a silent feeling of contentment & peace. I won't deny I have my fears, but your worth the discovery. - Nikki Rowe
Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk. - A.W. Tozer
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. - Maria Montessori
Laws are silent in times of war. - Cicero
The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark. - Parke Godwin
The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read. - Donna Lynn Hope
I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability. - Ron White
I observe and remain silent. - Elizabeth I
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. - Washington Irving
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. - Victor Hugo
Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking. - James Wood
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. - Voltaire
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G. K. Chesterton
Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak. - A.D. Posey
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. - Voltaire
‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest. - Elsa Tamez
We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely. - C.S. Lewis
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm likeworship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, theirsongs never cease. -, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) - John Muir
A mother's love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends. - Kelly DeBie
If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you. - Jeanie Thompson
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories - George Eliot
The silent bear no witness against themselves. - Aldous Huxley
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. - Eckhart Tolle
You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart.You know what's on my mind, you've heard my thoughts.I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent - Victor Hugo
Through their kisses and caresses they experienced a joy and wonder the equal of which has never been known or heard of. But I shall be silent...; for the rarest and most delectable pleasures are those which are hinted at, but never told. - Chrétien de Troyes
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page. - Howard Schwartz
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. - William Shakespeare
Wake Up At The Most Silent Time And Read The BIBLE. - Cyc Jouzy
An amber sunset, a flowing river, a snow capped mountain, a beautiful heart, a calm mind, deep eyes, the moon, the earth and the sky - they are all silent. It's the words that give them meaning, decipher their essence and share their message. - Rashmit Kalra
Once more, my harp! once more, although I thoughtNever to wake thy silent strings again,A wandering dream thy gentle chords have wrought,And my sad heart, which long hath dwelt in pain,Soars, like a wild bird from a cypress bough,Into the poet's Heaven, and leaves dull grief below - Caroline Norton
The more deeper you think, the more silent you become. You understand the reasons behind the reason. It may not necessarily mean you are short of words. You however know what ignorance can trigger and how to deal with ignorance and purpose. The timeliness of your word is surely on point. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Once you go silent everyone starts misinterpreting what your silence says. - Jasmine Sandozz
Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle. - Anthony Liccione
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison
Oh my lovely moon! Touch my thirsty heart with your ocean of silvery silent love. - Debasish Mridha
You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance. - Jim Carroll
A kind of silence, if I may say, was walking through the house, and, like most silence, it was not silent at all: it rapped on the doors, echoed in the clocks, creaked on the stairs, leaned forward to peer into my face and explode. - Truman Capote
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. - Cato the Elder
A real friend is one with whom you can be silent. - Anonymous
Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves. - Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Let us be silent to listen to the heart's songs of eternity. Let us be kind to feel the beauty of tranquility. Let us vanish to belong and be nothing. - Debasish Mridha
You failed -your fart was not silent, my nose heard it's deafening noise. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
The streets are silent / The playgrounds are still /The noise has moved elsewhere / Into our homes / Into our hearts / It’s been too long /Children are not where they belong /The streets, the playgrounds and the song /Have been waiting for too long… - Daya Kudari
Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier. - Kris Courtney
Today i am feeling proud that i have a greatest teacher. My encouragement my motivation and my leader is only one that is my teacher. From silent to talkative from dread to cheer all credit goes to teacher for their such a encouragement. - Avinash Advani
Tears are the silent language of grief. - Voltaire
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place. - Pope John Paul II
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness. - Debasish Mridha
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
On a silent moonlit night look at the sky and see yourself dancing with those distant twinkling stars. - Debasish Mridha
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Our mothers were largely silent about what happened to them as they passed through this midlife change. But a new generation of women has already started to break the wall of silence. - Trisha Posner
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed. - Henry David Thoreau
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. - Roy Orbison
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
No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality. - Dejan Stojanovic
The best way to support terrorism is to be silent. - Sercan Leylek
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be. - William George Jordan
There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again - Munia Khan
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. - H. P. Lovecraft
To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog! - Mehmet Murat ildan
No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art! - Mehmet Murat ildan
they say people only hear what they want to hear,but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon. - Ava
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand. - C.S. Lewis
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
For the sea to be silent, wind must be silent, earthquake must be silent, boat must be silent, fish must be silent; behind every silence, there lies the silence of everything! - Mehmet Murat ildan
When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter. - Winston S. Churchill
She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions. - Debasish Mridha
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. - George Carlin
It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day?Where were youwhenI was silent with God in prandial pray?Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay?Where were you? - Kamand Kojouri
The moment you stand by an abuser and choose to remain silent you become an abuser also. In essence, you are telling God that your comfort is more important that speaking out for what is right and true. - Shannon L. Alder
I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society. - Carlos Fuentes
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. - David Viscott
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. - Ausonius
Kindness is silent, but it speaks louder than a voice. - Debasish Mridha
Intellectuality" silences OTHERS! "Intelligence" keeps YOU silent! - Vishwanath S J
You have to be silent, but ready - Rosen Topuzov
And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were such,In having heard, and seen too much,My grief must be as great and high,When all abandoned I shall be,Doomed to a silent destiny. - Aphra Behn
So grateful for the people who heard me when I was silent and saw me when I was invisible. - Steve Maraboli
Shades of gray. Even if our colors are bright, as long as we stay silent, we are like a gray mouse. In praise of our speaking out. - Lara Biyuts
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. - Pythagoras
An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. - Edmund Burke
A poet is a silent singer; he sings the deep songs of the soul silently. - Debasish Mridha
True love is very silent, very personal, very non-demanding, and nonjudgmental. - Debasish Mridha
If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent. - Kenneth Logan
A silent street always welcome a good music! - Mehmet Murat ildan
A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! - Mehmet Murat ildan
It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent. - D.H. Lawrence
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. - Publilius Syrus
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. - Simonides
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. - William Butler Yeats
Be silent and listen to the song of your soul. - Debasish Mridha
I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in God even when he is silent... - Anonymous inscription left in the wall of a German internment camp
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. - Walt Whitman
Even the proud in all their boasting, must fall silent before the wise. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
A silent idea is louder than a spoken words - Agostinho Neto
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. - Seneca
Pain whispersthrough silent wordsentombed in scarsshyly palpablein fleeting glimpsesbriefly allowed - Lady Bug
Hope is the moonlight filtering through the trees,Hope is the silent prayer that we make in distress,Hope is the promise that we make to ourselves,Hope is the happiness that we visualize, Hope is the horizon that we reach, if we try! - Balroop Singh
Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you're meant to light up in the world. - Vironika Tugaleva
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. - Emily Carr
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. - Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake. - Christina Rossetti
A leader cannot fall prey to the whims of the voices that shout the loudest, but must stand as a voice of reason in defense of the silent. - Saminu Kanti
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Winston S. Churchill
To heal our world we must be silent; willing to listen to the roars of the wounded. We must teach eachother how to feel, only than can an entire nation grow in peace, as the war within will slowly diminish. - Nikki Rowe
You have immense power. You are a god. You are a silent sun hiding in the earth as a human. - Debasish Mridha
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. - Epictetus
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent. - Roy T. Bennett
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. - Pythagoras
Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. - Unknown
For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear. - Alijia Izetbegovic
If the only tool in Willem's arsenal was a silent supplication to an absent almighty, then I might as well be sitting next to a raving radical ready to die for the promise of seventy-two virgins and a couple of camels. - Lisa C. Temple
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her. - Shannon L. Alder
Listen to the silent whisper of your soul and then let your heart dance with song. - Debasish Mridha
Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. - Victor Hugo
...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun. - Simon Raven
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. - Eugene Delacroix
Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends. - Ron Chernow
I have a voice, I cannot remain silent. - Nurudeen Ushawu
God is silent. Now if only man would shut up. - Woody Allen
Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing. - Shannon L. Alder
The place was silent and - aware. - P.C. Wren
You may not need to tell me, I can hear your song better when your voice is silent and your heart is singing. - Debasish Mridha
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. - Maurice Switzer
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength.
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. - Henry Miller
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours. - Marcel Proust
Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage - Constance Friday
Intuition is the silent knowledge of your soul. - Matthew Donnelly
im the type of talkactive person, but once im silent. that only have two things,first ; im falling in love,second ; I hate Liar.they could be both ; yes im falling in love with a Liar. - anne idris
a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read. - Sanober Khan
It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Whoever has received knowledgeand eloquence in speech from Godshould not be silent or secretivebut demonstrate it willingly.When a great good is widely heard of,then, and only then, does it bloom,and when that good is praised by man,it has spread its blossoms. - Marie de France
In a classroom, when it’s silent, they’re thinking. You’ve got to give them time to think. - Harry Gilbert
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. - Catherine of Siena
Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside? - Anthony Liccione
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. - Carl Sandburg
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. - Gertrude Stein
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. - Samuel Johnson
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift. - Dejan Stojanovic
A silent tongue does not betray its owner - sheik ahmed hassoun
He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent. - Alice Hoffman
This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea. - Cormac McCarthy
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. - Unknown
A silent mouth is sweet to hear. - Irish Proverb
Like flowers to a bee, feelings are the silent language of the heart. - Debasish Mridha
She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked. - May Sinclair
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken. - Mason Cooley
The only way to escape the feeling of loneliness is to just be silent - Sonya Withrow
Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold on to your imagination. - Mona Naqi
A minute later the steam stopped. By then, I was soaking wet and, no doubt, my pores were open. Some people pay a fortune for this kind of beauty treatment. I got mine for free, if you disregard the bruises, headache and all those dead people."- Corin Hayes, Silent City (working title) - G.R. Matthews
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness. - Thomas Bartholin
The insights we receive when going silent, it's our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world. - Kamal Ravikant
On this Valentine’s Day I like to whisper in your ear the silent songs of my heart. - Debasish Mridha
I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent - that's the worst thing. - Anonymous
Death is not the beginning of an endless deep, dark, silent night but the beginning of a bright, joyful, eternal light. - Debasish Mridha
Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small? - O.R. Melling
A stroll by the silent shores watching the sunset-Every bookaholic's dream. - Aanu
Tears are the silent passion for suffering - Christopher Poindexter
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. - Leonora Carrington
This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent. - Abby Norman
It is almost impossible to write about those moments and feelings of indescribable joy and ecstasy which only a soul can realize. Your silent, pleasant, and blissful presence often gives me those moments. - Debasish Mridha
Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion. - Debasish Mridha
Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love? - Donna Lynn Hope
Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms. - Robert Fanney
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind. - Alice Walker
Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb. - Jazz Feylynn
Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa. - Hugh Elliott
Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come. - Shana Chartier
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. - George Washington
As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can’t write a coda because I can’t speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself. - G.R. Reader
..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will: - William Wordsworth
Ten men shouting will control ten thousand who choose to remain silent. - Joseph J. Haeggquist
I came to this world just to give love,just to fill the world with silent song of love,just to feel and share the power of love,just to sing the song of dedication to love. - Debasish Mridha
Discover your level of consciousness. Now be silent and transcend and transform your consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
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