Silent Quotes

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot.

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

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

What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

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

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

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.

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

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

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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.

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

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Laws are silent in time of war.