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Silent Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence…
- What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
- Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
- Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest,…
- Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
- What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
- I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their…
- Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
- We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as our plains, as…
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- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
- The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. — Honore de Balzac
- Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. — Annie Besant
- Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of… — Jean de la Bruyere
- We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while… — Jean de la Bruyere
- Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan
- A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and… — John Calvin
- It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to… — Madeleine Albright