Unsaid Quotes - Page 3

• The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'

  Matthew McConaughey

  Doors, Parks, Hello

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• These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Secret, Speak

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

  Charles Baxter

  Writing, Unseen, Details

  Charles Baxter (2007). “The art of subtext: beyond plot”, Graywolf Pr

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• If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Heart, Needs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

  Arundhati Roy

  Air, Times Like These, Bigs

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.142, Penguin Books India

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• She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

  Jane Austen

  Heart

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.833, Delphi Classics

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• I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

  Anna Kamienska

  Confusion, Understanding, Levels

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• The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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• To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Character, Mean

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• There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid.

  Lauren Aquilina

  Constellations, Left, Universe

  Song: Talk To Me, 2013

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• Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid.

  Ally Carter

  Life Is

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.158, Hachette UK

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• Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns, voices are not raised, much goes unsaid. But just beneath the sophisticated composure are longing, loss, heartbreak. And how intensely familiar is the table itself, which made this reader suddenly understand how much of our real life takes place there. Heather A. Slomski is truly a fresh voice on the scene, and The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons is that rare thing, a new book as innovative in its design as it is compulsively readable.

  Jaimy Gordon

  Real, Book, Character

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• The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Silence, Important, Feels

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• Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

  John Ridley

  Hate, Facts, Rant

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

  Cato the Younger

  Speak

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• After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.

  Frank Beddor

  Love, Husband, Wife

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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• What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.

  Thomas Leonard

  Opportunity, Way, Left

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• From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Character, Keys, Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Life, Regret, Two

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• Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Secret, Good Movie, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know what I'm not going to do I'm not going to tell you every move I'm going to make. This isn't a reality TV show. Some things are just best left unsaid. I'll handle the club the way I deem is necessary. They just need to play.

  Clint Hurdle

  Moving, Reality, Play

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• There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.

  Ally Carter

  Wall, Silence, Risk

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

  Adora Svitak

  Juniors, Matter, Messages

  "Would You Buy This for Your Daughter?" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2011.

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• Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.

  Sam Hamill

  Lying, Important, Elements

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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