Accepting Quote by John Gallagher, Jr

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative…

— Oriana Fallaci

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity…

— Richard M. Weaver

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

— Anonymous

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage…

— Robert Walser

“Seize the moment before the moment loses interest.”

— Kirk Dematas

For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame…

— Richard Ford

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation…

— Walter Scott

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The danger of remaining silent is over time you begin to lose your voice. You forget how to stand up for yourself and end…

— Tanesia Harris

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final…

— Charlie Chaplin