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
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And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
Soren Kierkegaard
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
Irish Proverb
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The silent bear no witness against themselves.
Aldous Huxley
We must be silent before we can listen.We must listen before we can learn.We must learn before we can prepare.We must prepare before we can serve.We must serve before we can lead.
William Arthur Ward
This love is silent.
T.s. Eliot
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
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 usurpation.
James Madison
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
John Buchan
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Publilius Syrus
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Publilius Syrus
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
William Hazlitt
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Paul Eldridge
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin
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
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
Ms. Fulgham invoked her right to remain silent and would not answer any of our questions. She also refused to participate in any psychological testing.
John Montgomery
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Thomas Moore
Hope will never be silent.
Harvey Milk
It can get pretty annoying, and if there is something that is so important just put it on silent or vibrating alert. It's very rude and distracting.
Sarah Nelson
It's a big credibility issue for the drug war, more than anything, because there is a big contingent of people in Congress and the (Bush) administration who have taken a hard line against drug trafficking. It's very odd and hurts their credibility if these same elements in Congress and the administration remain silent on this and just let it slide.
Adam Isacson
We're living in a world where natural disasters are increasing, and the silent crises are increasing. It is difficult to choose between all of them.
Trevor Rowe
'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
Joaquin Miller
It's fitting and appropriate that the New York Stock Exchange remains silent during the memorial services.
Richard Grasso
He's a silent assassin. He's a big man and can be intimidating, but he's so soft-spoken. But you always know when he's around.
Shane Victorino
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
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Joseph P. Thompson
In the arms of the angels, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent revelry, you're in the arms of the angels, may you find some comfort here...
Sarah Mclachlan
I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent.
Irish Sayings
Of course, they are not keeping silent. They are telling us how they were working and who they were working with.
Nikolai Kovalyov
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb
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
The silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.
Gerhard Kocher
I'm going to sit in the last row in parliament, think about things and stay silent, ... I don't have anything -- except for a good mood.
Joschka Fischer
No one really wants to step up and tackle this. They're silent on the issue, hoping that it will go away. They're not accountable themselves, but they're enablers.
Michael Hein
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Carl Sandburg
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
Jessica is fast and aggressive. She understands the game and she has a good sense of positioning. She's a silent leader and she gets it done by example.
Jodie Davis
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
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
Brooks Atkinson
Sometimes you have to be silent in order to be heard.
Wilma Askinas
Vietnam is very excited, of course it's too early for us to make any conclusions to say that in Vietnam the situation is under control. But … this rather silent period may indicate, partly, that their commitment paid off.
Dr. Shigeru Omi
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
He was a wonderful person, really confident. He was one of those strong silent types, and I was looking forward to another 20 years with him because I knew he'd be a close friend.
Thron Riggs
He [Escudero] was silent. He did not give me the go signal to file it but implied the fact that he did not also stop me.
Oliver Lozano
I'm asking everyone to speak up. It is a silent killer and silence condones violence.
Rae Spence
Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
Thomas Neill
The birds are relatively silent. The woods, they're like a jungle, just thick foliage, just incredibly hot, humid, buggy and snakes everywhere. Everything about it is just as bad as could be.
Tim Gallagher
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
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
Silent Hill is the scariest thing I've been in since a bed with Ally Sheedy.
Radha Mitchell
You need to talk about it, because in my daughter's case, everyone was silent. No one spoke up, so there was no help for her.
Vicki Crompton
The whole place was silent. You couldn't even hear a whisper.
Anabella Hedman
The President doesn't have enough time left. If he remains silent, he will be responsible for these crimes against humanity.
Joel Chipkar
The gym was packed. It was a very exciting match with both teams battling for every point. When this point was awarded, there was no cheering from the bleachers. My kids and the LaFayette kids and the fans were all silent. They couldn't believe what had happened. ... We had fought back so hard and this fourth game was so pivotal and to lose it that way was devastating.
Joe Loiacono
Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.
Thomas Campion
It's a break from regular class. I don't like Tuesdays and Thursdays because it's silent reading.
Adrienne Anderson
It is a way to show government that you care about what's going on. If you are constantly silent, you can be overlooked, you can be ignored, you can be forgotten.
Rosalind Murray
We're going to do the silent count, whatever we need to do. You've got to look at the ball, concentrate. As for looking at your guy, that's what peripheral vision is for.
David Diehl
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
The silent, lethal creep of apostasy began uneventfully. His quest for holiness had morphed into a mere pursuit of happiness. He never discerned it, nor would anyone else. He was a materialist now - just one of the well-respected selectmen who quelled controversy at the expense of progress.....
Steve Wallace
We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
Jane Powell
Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .
William Barnes
We drive by the site, and the bus goes silent. Everyone is looking across the highway (Route 128), looking at the memorial.
Bob Marinelli
This lie has now become clear and obvious and Iranian nation too will not keep silent... and people from different walks of life in Iran are unanimously stressing country's access to the nuclear technology.
Ayatollah Kashani
He's poised with the puck and never puts himself in dangerous positions. He's like a silent assassin.
Ric Jackman
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
David O. Mckay
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.
James Martineau
There is nothing more silent than an attack at sea.
Davis Bunn
We have to be visible and no longer silent if we are going to expect change and help end the war.
Bill Marion
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
My father played the piano remarkably well, in particular Chopin, Grieg, Beethoven and Scriabin. During the civil war he earned a living by playing the accompaniment to silent films at the cinema.
Andrei Sakharov
We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
What people don't understand is that mental illness affects one out of five families in America. It's kind of the hidden illness. It's a silent killer.
Bernie Block
That all started because I saw Run Silent, Run Deep on television.
John Schumacher
Our way of protecting what we have here is by being very silent, especially to those we have never met before.
Rex Tilousi
The majority ? finally, someone is getting up to speak for the majority, ... And we're not going to be silent any longer.
Deborah Johns
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-known roads.
Wilfred Owen
The people who believe that religion has entirely different meaning have been strangely silent. I think that it is really time for them to speak out.
John C. Danforth
She does a great job back there, digging the ball behind the server. Talk about a silent presence. She consistently scores four or five points a night for us.
Debbie Klock
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch
I like the dynamics of life, ... I like it when it rains, and suddenly the sun comes out, and I like it when it's really silent and then a loud booming noise comes through. Or vice-versa.
Serj Tankian
It gets real competitive, but it's a silent competitive.
A.j. Davis
Why not be silent, patient, and watchful like a photographer?
Michael Almereyda
We'll have silent auctions, live auctions, games and door prizes. We'll be there until the checkered flag drops.
Susan Rogers
A charge doesn't guarantee a conviction, so it's crucial that other witnesses and victims come forward. When victims stay silent, nothing changes. But when victims speak up, at least there's a chance for healing, justice and prevention.
Barbara Blaine
Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
Portuguese Proverb
This certainly steals an acting style that was used in the clubs in Munich in 1900 and picked up by (playwright Bertolt) Brecht. We associate it, and rightly so, with some of the high melodrama that was used for silent films. So sometimes, with this style of acting and the piano in the background, you get the idea that you're in a silent film melodrama.
Lee Breuer
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep, Will never find the ready hour to sow.
Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson
I would immediately walk out the back door of the catwalk, facing the fans in the lower stands below. It was my silent protest, I suppose. It wasn't in me to stand up and be part of his act.
Milo Hamilton
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'conner
And what we have now, almost certainly we think, is sick chickens who are showing no symptoms, and that is very, very bad. They are silent carriers of the virus.
Peter Cordingley
I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.
George Grossmith
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
William Gilmore Simms
He revealed that at the very end of the lecture, and I've never heard a lecture hall so silent - you could have heard a pin drop. It was incredible, and I talked before about bringing a new perspective to history we know, and I think that was one instance where that was particularly true. To hear that weighty fact is something I won't forget anytime soon.
Allison Murphy
Giving a voice to people who have been isolated, or have been invisible and silent, allowing them to speak out regardless of their economic status, their gender, or where they live.
Yoshio Utsumi
This event was breaking ground in that there were people who said, 'Let's read in this funky art gallery' and were the opposite of silent. They were ranting and roaring and howling.
Jonah Raskin
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
The worst thing you can do is allow this by being silent. We could not have made it without fair-minded, thinking white folks. You are here tonight, black and white, because you care.
Charles Steele
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Hedda Hopper
Mr. Williams, I'm gonna advise you that you have the right to remain silent. But you know what?On behalf of Jessie, I'm going to hereby waive that right to remain silent. We all are going to waive that right to remain silent.
Michael Crosby
We have written letters to the principal, Dr Claude Packer, followed by petitions, meetings and silent protests, and they promised to discuss it in board meetings, two years now, but no response.
Dwayne Howell
It's amazing to see kids in grades 1 through 4 sitting there absolutely silent listening to him. It gave me goose bumps.
Anne Dobrowski
I'm seeing something and I'm not standing silent about it. Humans are pushed out to make room for cars.
Studs Terkel
Genesis will be as silent, as automatic for the users as we can make it. It's a natural evolution in security.
Tom Powledge
We don't want to be bystanders. During the Holocaust, there were too many bystanders. People just didn't stand up for the rights of the silent.
Rabbi Michael Gisser
The game is constantly interesting because your imagination is constantly working. You're given clues about the background of the town of Silent Hill and you understand half of them and the other half you imagine.
Christophe Gans
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
Imagine a silent movie studio.
John Doyle
It was amazing to watch these silent machines gliding on light. Two college teams came in and showed industry how to build a space elevator.
Marc Schwager
The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.
William Wetmore Story
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
Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying to: she pronounced it Margot. Finally Margot set her right. `No, no, Jean. The t is silent as in Harlow.'
Margot Asquith
What it is, is the attacks on immigrants have gotten to the point where a community that has been very silent has found its voice.
Michael Dale
People should care, quite frankly. Because if you're silent about injustice, you're giving consent to it.
Mark Konrad
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
The fans got silent when she made that shot, it got quiet, it took the air out of their lungs. Everyone jumped off the bench and on to the court to celebrate because we thought the game was over and that we had won.
Jayeneca Bailey
It has been silent for some time. It's really not the same.
Dave Stott
There will be a silent auction and then the art will hang in the studio throughout the week. At the end of the week, those individuals who bid the highest on different pieces of artwork will be given those works of art.
Mary Campbell
'Sunrise' was one of the last silent films. And as such is proof of why so many filmmakers lamented the coming of sound. It is a lovely and very powerful motion picture of love and the power of fidelity in marriage.
James D'arc
Through these events, we can highlight the silent work of SOS. If people know that we are here, we may be able to get help from them because our challenge is to raise funds to help the children.
Luis L. Seras
Isn't it the case, ... that there were deep divisions inside the executive over the issue and rather than tell the prime minister that, the first minister chose to abdicate responsibility and stay completely silent.
Nicola Sturgeon
I entered this race because I refused to be silent about the immorality of the war in Iraq.
Jonathan Tasini
We call them the silent majority.
Ted Ludwig
There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
Agnetha Faltskog
With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of guilty or not guilty.
Adil Ahmed
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.
Henry Fielding
Amid the whirlwind of different accounts of the events of the last few years, George Tenet has been noticeably silent.
Jonathan Burnham
National studies are showing that early decay is on the increase, and that's shocking, actually. It's really a silent epidemic.
Mary Hayes
Cyber-crooks, motivated by profit, have adapted well to the new environment -- they are now looking to silent infections that allow them to operate without much noise being made in the media. This means potential victims do not have their guard up and are more susceptible to theft of money and all types of information.
Luis Corrons
We will be having a silent auction and a sale of goods for all the things people have donated. All the proceeds will go towards helping someone get out of the poverty trap.
Janet Heap
The law is silent on those two issues.
Bob Johannessen
This is a historic step, but only a first step because the prosecutor has been silent about crimes by the Ugandan Army.
Richard Dicker
Tooth decay is a silent epidemic for children ages 0 to 5.
Kris Perry
The Internet started in a silent-movie phase -- a text-oriented Internet. But now it's moving. We look at ourselves as that portal that people come to for streaming audio or video programming.
Todd Wagner
Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.
Craig Sher
What are they thinking about now? The fact that J&J is silent on that speaks volumes about what they had attempted to do before -- just to get a good price.
Steve Brozak
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's confusions.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
She can tap into what has been an astonishingly silent minority since the end of last year's presidential contest. It will capture attention.
Kellyanne Conway
It is the least understood segment because they are the least outspoken. I have no handle on that, and I don't think any researchers do. It is a silent part of the movement.
David Plank
He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men.
Walter H. Pater
[The alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's collected, ... So we make every effort to collect those outstanding penalties.
Lori Anderson
Bruce has really caught on well. The coaches are excited about him. They call him 'The Silent Killer,' because you don't hear much about him, but he's out there making plays.
Kevin Bouis
Demetrius has been our silent leader. He's been our most consistent player. He's been outstanding.
Gene Pingatore
It's a lot of fun to have people come out really excited and after a little while have the crowd be silent.
Mark Zalewski
To hear, one must be silent.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Victor Hugo
I hid the truth from them but they know. They even intended not to speak to me. I sensed that they knew because, if they would be chatting as I passed, they would fall silent. But, when I was convicted, when I decided to serve God, I could no longer take (the silence). The truth set me free.
Pablo Martinez
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. Lovecraft
As soon as they try, the alarm goes off. It's not a silent alarm. It screams. We haven't had a break-in since.
Kathleen Boutin
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.
Anna Katharine Green
It's a silent disease, in many ways, as well. Some people are affected with immobility but many people have cognitive issues when can be very devastating.
Susan Krieg
It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
Mary Pickford
Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.
Bill Peterson
For the future of our sons, we cannot keep silent in the wake of these findings, ... forfeit the lives of Arabs.
Azmi Bishara
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
Marin is one of those silent leaders who lead just through sheer work ethic and by example.
Shannon Miller
All of the auction items are donated. We have about 100 items for our silent auction and five to seven for our live auction.
Cindy Stirling
I couldn't live like that with my friends worshipping money. I couldn't live like that. People wanted to chase girls, they had a silent competition about finding the best girls, and who had the best party on the bus. It was childish. It broke my heart.
Brian Welch
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Audre Lorde
The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is.
Julie Burchill
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Sir Winston Churchill
Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing sensible to say to them. Haven't we learned in the last thousand years that the more we confront objects with the reflection of their appearance, the more silent they become?
Franz Marc
We did one of those scenes where I take his hand and show him some things, ... and I remember Frank saying, 'Cut,' and everybody was just silent for a couple of minutes. Everybody was kind of crying. Tom was still crying. I was still crying. Frank didn't even know what to say. That was a moment I will never forget.
Michael Clarke Duncan
It is very important that women of this country be made aware of the dangers of osteoporosis in the sense that it is a silent and invisible disease with no symptoms whatsoever.
Rita Moreno
They are not silent they are talking.
Nikolai Kovalyov
We have 25 regular members who will donate for the live auction and 25 consignment members who will donate for the silent auction.
Becky Keene
We need a reason for speaking, we need none for keeping silent.
Pierre Nicole
This huge demonstration will send a clear signal that although Muslims are ready to hear and respond to criticism, we will not remain silent over cheap insults in the name of 'freedom of speech'.
Imran Waheed
I find it difficult to be silent. Either I have to go out and tell the world, or stay and take arms against my government.
Simon Deng
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
That's just my personality, that's just who I am. I'm very vocal on defense. I'm not one to be silent and not talk. I'm always asking coach about plays or making suggestions. It's just something I'm use to doing from football.
Kevin Moore
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
Brian Moore
We didn't want their rally to go unanswered. We've been getting interest from thousands and thousands of people. . . . We look forward to standing with other patriotic families, a majority that has been silent in the past.
William Greene
We can't forget about the silent tax payer that will never set foot in the facility.
Nancy Carroll
A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad.
John Andrew Holmes
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
Victor Hugo
'Silent Assassin,' that's pretty much what he is. Because he's coming out of nowhere. He's consistent. You can depend on him. People had a question mark at that position after Antonio Pierce left. He's stepped in and done an excellent job.
Renaldo Wynn
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
Eugene Delacroix
I don't think that we have anything in place about interim. What we have is silent on the issue of interim. We have to bridge the gap. Two times in the last eight months, we've been hit with vacancies. There should be a framework as to how we should proceed.
Joseph Powers
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