Silent Quotes
2059 Silent quotes by 1309 unique authors
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They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.
— Tupac Shakur
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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
— Jean Paul
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I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.
— Claire Carver-Dias
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The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for…
— Paul Virilio
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Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those…
— Unknown Author
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to…
— Edmond Jabes
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
— Saint Augustine
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Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
— George Whitefield
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The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to…
— James Cromwell
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History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
— J. Edwin Orr
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
— Ovid
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
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To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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As far as possible, you should pray in quiet and silent devotion. Try to have a favorite topic of prayer, such as a devotion to…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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What is reading but silent conversation?
— Walter Savage Landor
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Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After you…
— Rajneesh
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The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your…
— Rajneesh
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Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death…
— Pablo Neruda
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Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects…
— David Whyte
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