It's been a slow-motion disaster. It's silent and invisible. People don't imagine this. It hasn't captured our imagination, like the rain forest.

Boris Worm

This is the 'must-attend' event of the year. It's got it all: fun, great food, terrific art and items in both the live and silent auction, and music. It's a great event and helps our students so much.

Jeanette Miller

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

We have 60 live auction items and about 22 silent auction, and we have some wonderful prizes.

Karen O'dell

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

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

Barry Cornwall

Businesses have been very generous in donating to our silent auction. They have donated many gift certificates and other items.

Lori Stephenson

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

Walt Whitman

Clearly, the Justice Department reviewed documents highlighting the importance of helping sexual assault victims prevent pregnancy. In light of this evidence, it is troubling that the protocols remain silent on the issue and fail to protect women.

Louise Melling

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

The trials in Mexico are without a jury. It's all on paper. There are no live witnesses, and they don't have the right to remain silent. And they're guilty until proven innocent. Their culture is so different.

Llewellyn Marczuk

A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic violence. But 84 percent of those who are victims of domestic violence remain silent.

Patricia Espinosa

I'm not gay, but everyone deserves and is entitled to human rights. It's God given. Although it's pretty much impossible to stay silent all day... sneezing and yawning and what not.

Stephen Jordan

That is probably something I needed to work on, ... We had two different centers in and out and they have different styles with the silent count. That was hard for me to get adjusted to.

Bryant Mckinnie

The idea really came to us when we realized we had hundreds of silent films in our library that we couldn't air on the network because they had no musical score to accompany them. We also wanted to find a way to reach out to younger audiences, to keep our library relevant to them. This program helps draw in composers in that age range.

Katherine Evans

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Vandyke

That's why the Partnership is silent on this.

Brian Higgins

Canada gave her all in this war and I think that our understanding of what it means to be Canadian was actually forged in the crucible of the western front, ... And yet, mysteriously, our cinematic record is all but silent on this subject.

Paul Gross

He is a silent hero.

David Gore

For about five minutes after he played, the whole place was silent. It was incredible. It was moving.

Barbara Jones

We cannot keep silent and must stand by them at this hour of crisis.

Obaidul Kader

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

Felicia Hemans

You have the right to cut off questioning at any time and remain silent.

Ellis Rubin

Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It's a memory I will always cherish.

Earvin Magic Johnson