If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. — Orlando Gibbons Copy Share Image
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Realize that the Silence offers an ever available and almost unlimited opportunity for awakening the highest conception of Truth. Try to comprehend… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is? — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Stand here by my side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes; The clouds hang over it, heavy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boy is he pissed," said Adrian. "Do you blame him?" asked Christian. "He just lost memerbship in the evil mastermind club. His… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
