Silently Quotes
337 Silently quotes by 259 unique authors
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Happiness does not come quickly. It is not conferred by any single event, however exciting or comforting or satisfying the event may be. It cannot…
— Joan D. Chittister
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It does not always help to analyze and think about problems with your rational mind. Sometimes it is far more effective to turn to your…
— Shakti Gawain
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There is a wise being living inside of you. It is your intuitive self. Focus your awareness into a deep place in your body, a…
— Shakti Gawain
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My prayers seem to be more of an attitude than anything else. I indulge in very little lip service, but ask the Great Creator silently,…
— George Washington Carver
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There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes of children and…
— Kent Nerburn
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At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip…
— Robert Burchfield
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Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
— Assia Djebar
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There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of…
— Gene Lees
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Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It…
— Alison Lurie
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Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together.…
— Garth Nix
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
— Bodhidharma
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As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it…
— Ole Hallesby
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Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
— Euripides
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
— John Dryden
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Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than…
— Hannah More
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the…
— Northrop Frye
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Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who…
— Howard Dean
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There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured…
— Gabriel Macht
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Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence…
— Alfred Stieglitz
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The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her.…
— Robert Genn
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Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.
— Stanislaw Lem
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In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and…
— William Wordsworth
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When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'
— Josh Groban
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There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional…
— Elizabeth Edwards
Who Wrote These Silently Quotes
259 authors contributed a total of 337 Silently Quotes, led by these top contributors: