A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells, May creep back, silent, to still village wells Up half-known roads. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights. — Patina Miller Copy Share Image
I'm one of those guys, you be silent and get the guys on your side of the ball working. — Demaryius Thomas Copy Share Image
“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.” — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
“They stand close for a while, not touching, but breathing each other's breath. The city is silent now, as if for peace.” — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
There was a war going on in our house. A silent war that sounded no guns, and the bodies that fell were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
ISIS went to school on how we were collecting intelligence on terrorist organizations by using telecommunications technologies. And when they learned that… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
“They’re so silent!” I said. “Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While… — Toussaint Louverture Copy Share Image
Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart.… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues - especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
“SILENT LIKE SLEEP You appear by my side, silent like sleep. Soft hair, a little wild. No fear, gentle like a calm… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The blood must have already, in its own silent way, seeped inside.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war). — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image