Best Say Nothing Sayings
234 Say Nothing quotes by 199 unique authors
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If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in…
— Robin G. Collingwood
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...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say…
— Robert H. Schuller
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...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith…
— Rod Dreher
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...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even if we boast…
— John Cassian
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Of hobbies there are many, many, kinds. For example, money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby, for it will scarcely carry a boy along…
— John Cotton Dana
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The value of being silent: I never miss an opportunity to say nothing.
— Garrison Wynn
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The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
— Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God…
— Vincent de Paul
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She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer…
— Sharon Shinn
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A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more…
— Chinua Achebe
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Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.
— Dorothy Koomson
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In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something.…
— Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and…
— Michelle Huneven
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The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers…
— James A. Baldwin
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We cannot say this or that trouble will not befall, yet we may, by the help of the Spirit, say, Nothing that does befall will…
— Richard Sibbes
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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine…
— Allen Tate
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my…
— Andre Gide
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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the…
— George Jean Nathan
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The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
— Solon
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By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing…
— Octavio Paz
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Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an…
— Joy Williams
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In my case, I can sincerely say nothing is impossible.
— Novak Djokovic
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Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
— Thomas Bernhard
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