A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Her name was a silent song on his lips. Her love was like a circle in the water, radiating ever outward, inevitably… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
People who are silent use their brains while people who are noisy use their mouth without thinking! — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there,… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all… — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When this awareness grows, dreaming stops, by and by. When this awareness grows, the wheel moves slower and slower, because there is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
“Just because a person is silent doesn’t mean there’s no message.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
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