Silent Quotes - Page 35

• Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Perseverance, Grows, Greater

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• Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

  Tori Amos

  Years, Voice, Sometimes

  Song: Silent All These Years, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old love because it's so-intricate. Perhaps there is another name for it, one we don't yet know. I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you'd look at your skin and say Water, you would also wake in the morning and say Love. But it has been underneath, this new and old thing I feel, subterranean, silent and steady, like blood, rushing along and along without often making itself known.

  Jane Hamilton

  Morning, Fall, Rain

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• But there are so many ways to be needy. There are many who mourn and find no comfort. Many are lonely and find no love. Some feel unneeded and find no opportunities to share with others. Anyone who has an unmet need is needy. We are all needy! And those who have something they can share are rich. We are all rich! All of us can share something that may lift a burden or help in some silent struggle.

  Mary Edmunds

  Lonely, Struggle, Opportunity

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• As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

  Adyashanti

  Knowing, Mind, Return

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• Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Men, Tree, Secret

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• Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

  Fergie

  Workout, Crazy, Men

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• Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

  Pliny the Elder

  Cat, Light, Bird

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Language

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• I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Pain, Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

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• Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Prayer

  Soren Kierkegaard (1956). “The Prayers of Kierkegaard”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

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• Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

  William Cowper

  Sunshine, Fate, Blow

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.118

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• To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

  Ovid

  Silence, Secret, Faults

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• When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Unique, Expression, Personality

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• What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Thoughtful, Self

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.213

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• The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.

  William Hazlitt

  Stars, Reality, Sky

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• A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Mouths

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• We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

  Peter King

  Needs, Done, Flight

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• I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

  Faith Prince

  Stars, Keys, Silent Films

  "DIVA TALK: Catching Up with Little Mermaid's Faith Prince Plus More Kander/Ebb Memories". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 01, 2009.

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• If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Want, Facts, Pleasure

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.168, Open Court Publishing

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• I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

  Richard Briers

  Couple, Garden, Lovers

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• Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

  Martin Luther

  Waiting, Shapes, Hebrew

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• But if Satan speaks sometimes, God keep silent, always. We have to find the answers alone.

  Rene Barjavel

  Devil, Answers, Satan

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• 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.

  Al Lewis

  Needs, Radio, Satisfaction

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• Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration.

  Matt Sanchez

  Baby, President, Killers

  "Free Speech For All?" by Alicia Colon, The New York Sun, September 28, 2007.

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