Quotes with silent

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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bob Woodward 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.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • James Baldwin There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Anna Katharine Green There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps There is the silent criticism of silence, worth all the rest.
    Friends in Council II, ch. 2
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • William Wordsworth 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.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • T. S. Eliot This love is silent.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bob Kane This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Winston Churchill Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Bernard Meltzer Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Henry van Dyke Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Henry van Dyke Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Horace Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ben Foster Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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