Silent Quotes - Page 6

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it will ever go away because it's so universal. Humor doesn't always travel to other countries, but horror does.

Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -

Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

Silent people are dangerous; others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux; Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.