Quotes with silent

  • Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
  • This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
  • The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
  • Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable....
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A yawn is a silent shout.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Cato the Elder 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
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • George Washington If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Voltaire It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • St. John of the Cross It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ovid 'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • John Calvin A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
    John Calvin
    French theologian, pastor and reformer (1509 - 1564)
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  • Barry Cornwall A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Bess Truman A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Henry Miller After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Barry Cornwall All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Edmund Burke An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Marquis de Sade Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Albert Einstein As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Annie Besant Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
    The book: a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors League of America, presented at the Library of Con
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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