Silent Quotes - Page 8

• In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Race, Dust, Civilization

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• Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Meditation, Peaceful

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• What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

  George Edward Woodberry

  Stars, Men, Thinking

  George Edward Woodberry, “On A Portrait Of Columbus”

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• Responding to sexism you have to not just remain silent but try to figure out a proper response - again, though, not going to the place of anger and feeling sorry for yourself, because that kind of plays into the hands of the sexists.... It does take practice though.

  Hillary Clinton

  Sorry, Feelings, Trying

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• The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.

  Prentice Mulford

  Moving, Effort, Mind

  Prentice Mulford (2012). “Your Forces And How To Use Them (Complete Annotated Edition)”, p.203, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sex, Men, Mystery

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, People, Understanding

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• It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

  Plutarch

  Impossible, Easy, Recalls

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• I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

  Robert Breault

  Cat, Moments, Conversation

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• The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
  The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
  All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
  Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Dark, Night

  William Cullen Bryant, “Hymn To The North Star”

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• Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Respect, Speak, Should

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• To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

  John Donne

  Lying, Judging, Answers

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.364

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• If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Men, Games

  Libra pt. 2 (1988)

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• My new Boyfriend! Mr. Marmoset Hard and Silent! #peopledontknowthings

  Madonna Ciccone

  New Boyfriend, Hard

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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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• Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

  Pindar

  Silence, Left

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts don’t stink, and the really smelly ones don’t make a sound." In other words: When you’re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad cliché and a good quotation. My mother’s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Real, Blow

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• You are most like Christ, when you remain silent under attack.

  Rick Warren

  Christ

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• Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Spiritual, Needs, Cost

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• Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

  Berenice Bejo

  World, Want, Actresses

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.

  Harvey Broome

  War, Rivers, America

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• Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Race, White, Majority

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• I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Race, Wings, Soul

  1824 The Journal of Euge'ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948), entry for 4 Jun.

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• 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.

  Amanda Burton

  Years, Looks, Use

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• When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me, my stomach was always hungry, and my fear and distrust kept me from opening up to new friendships. I thought the war was over when I left Cambodia, but I realize now that for survivors and all those involved, the war is never over just because the guns have fallen silent.

  Loung Ung

  War, Gun, Opening Up

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