Silent Quotes

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

See and keep silent.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

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.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

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.

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

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.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

During war, the laws are silent.

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

The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie.

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

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.

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.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Hope will never be silent.

Now I'm the go-to-girl for silent films.

Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it's a silent black-and-white film.

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.