Silent Quotes - Page 21

• Be thy sleep
  Silent as night is, and as deep.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sleep, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.162

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• How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Morning, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1852). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With Illustrations by John Gilbert”, p.272

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• The law is silent during war.
  [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Law

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• Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.346

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• Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
  Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

  Alexander Pope

  Sleep, Race, Two

  Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.346, Lulu.com

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• I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less. I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of 'Bringing Out the Dead' and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling.

  Nicolas Cage

  Fall, Past, Ideas

  "Nicolas Cage: 'I Want To Keep Romance and Passion Alive in Myself'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. November 10, 2009.

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• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  E. G. Marshall

  Watches, Used, Theater

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• The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

  Francois de la Noue

  Silly, Men, Deceit

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• Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.

  Ursula Parrott

  Long, May, Enough

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• One wants more time, more youth. That is it. That is all one asks for - nothing but that, a little more time. Hear it running by! Listen! In the night, in the morning, at noon, at even, rushing by, silent, stealthy, trying to hoodwink you by the fixed appearance of things that seem not to change; but never stopping. Oh, to stop it! Oh, to get it back! Oh, to dig one's toes in and refuse to be rushed headlong towards the brink!

  Mary Borden

  Running, Time, Morning

  Mary Borden (1925). “Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel”

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• The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

  Albert Camus

  Rooms, Saws, Firsts

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.72, Vintage

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• I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

  Pat Nixon

  Talking, Mad, Leave Me Alone

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• A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

  Benton MacKaye

  Nature, Escaping, Effort

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• I'm a huge Dallas Mavs fan. What I love about Dirk Nowitzki is he has just as much talent as everyone else, if not more, and he never toots his own horn. He's this silent warrior.

  Erin Wasson

  Warrior, Dallas, Fans

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• The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius might furnish the subject of a sincere and ample panegyric. The wisdom of his laws and the success of his arms rendered his administration respectable in the eyes both of his subjects and of his enemies. He loved and practised the virtues of domestic life, which seldom hold their residence in the palaces of kings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Kings, Eye, Character

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.47, Modern Library

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• Silent customers can be deadly. Encourage them to complain.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Complaining, Customers

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• A parent has to be silent much of the time.

  Helen Beardsley

  Parent

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• In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

  Alan Paton

  Fall, Dark, White

  Alan Paton (1950). “Cry, the beloved country”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?"

  Betty Friedan

  Years, Wife, House

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan. Chapter 1: "The Problem That Has No Name", opening lines, 1963.

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• We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

  George Eliot

  Feelings, His Love, Speak

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.68

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• In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Party, Boys

  1989 Self-Consciousness, VI. 'On Being A Self Forever'.

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• Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.

  Bill Peterson

  Prayer, Few Words, Silent Prayer

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• Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

  Peter Weir

  Art, Thinking, Silent Films

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• That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Said

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• But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.

  Mary Oliver

  Blood, Wings, Bird

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.22, Beacon Press

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