Silently Quotes
337 quotes by 259 authors
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Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.
— Unknown Author
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Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over…
— Al-Shafi‘i
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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it…
— Anton Chekhov
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If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently…
— John Bertram Phillips
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How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.
— Caryll Houselander
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A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like…
— Rajneesh
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There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our…
— Unknown Author
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We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his…
— Alice McDermott
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Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears
— Pauline Oliveros
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I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up.…
— Klaus Kinski
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Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud
— Marina Abramovic
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At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good…
— Orson Scott Card
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I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the…
— Rajneesh
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Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns…
— Colin Greenland
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Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them.…
— Hesiod
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History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen…
— John Stuart Mill
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect…
— Irving Penn
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It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,…
— Charles Darwin
Who Wrote These Silently Quotes
259 authors contributed a total of 337 Silently Quotes, led by these top contributors: