Silent Quotes

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

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.

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

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.

Hope will never be silent.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

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.

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

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

In time of war the laws are silent.

See and keep silent.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

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

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.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

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

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.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.