Silent Quotes

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.

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

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

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

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

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.

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.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

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.

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