Mute Quotes - Page 3

• We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

  Anna C Salter

  Realization, Bears, Threatening

  Anna C. Salter (2004). “Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children”, Basic Books (AZ)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

  Saigyō

  Moon, Light, Tree

  19 Copy quote

• He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

  Harold MacMillan

  Fall, Play, Enjoy

  In Michael Foot 'Aneurin Bevan' (1962) pt. 1, ch. 5

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

  Walter Scott

  Nature, Poet, Celebrate

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.30

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious awareness of any kind of literal narrative. And that's why I really try not to pump up motivation or plot or anything like that.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Motivation, Trying, Frozen

  Source: theamericanreader.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christmas, Memories, Joy

  40 Copy quote

• I remember when Samuel Okwaraji died on the field, I was mute and I didn't even know what I was doing or what I was saying.

  Stephen Keshi

  Fields, Remember, Died

  Source: host00.soccerladuma.net

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.

  Charles Lamb

  Music, Wall, Heart

  6 Copy quote

• My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and has always been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to hold that as a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is, and it will be their loss.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Beautiful, Sadness, Loss

  9 Copy quote

• The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

  Peter Jackson

  Film, Critical

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A hidden Bliss is at the root of things.
  A mute Delight regards Time's countless works:
  To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room,
  To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Time, Self, Roots

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.14, Lotus Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Keep silence, be mute.
  If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD,
  be an ear!

  Rumi

  Silence, Ears, Tongue

  5 Copy quote

• You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.

  Max Lucado

  Kindness, Skills, Challenges

  8 Copy quote

• The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.

  George Steiner

  Memories, Challenges, Growth

  George Steiner (1991). “Martin Heidegger”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself in a thousand ways, from a sincere thank you to friend or stranger, to the mute, up-reaching acknowledgment to God--not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past.

  Faith Baldwin

  Gratitude, Believe, Humble

  8 Copy quote

• Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel the spirituality of those of our ancestors who predate the Indo-Europeans by many thousands of years.

  Marija Gimbutas

  Years, Needs, Helping

  19 Copy quote

• There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears.

  Witold Walczak

  Government, Voice, Buttons

  4 Copy quote

• What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life.

  John Mayer

  Guitar, Play, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Girl, Average

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.6, The Floating Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Deeds, Doers

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.242

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

  Robert Duvall

  Careers, Mind, Lines

  "Robert Duvall’s talks about his faith-themed film “Seven Days in Utopia” - and why he’s not into “message movies”". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December, 2012.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• So many miseries have craz'd my voice,
  That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Woe, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.518, BookCaps Study Guides

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dream, Grief, Heart

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.180

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

  Simon Hoggart

  Dream, Blood, Liberty

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.

  Heloise

  Passion, Heart, Fire

  36 Copy quote