Silent Quotes

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
Richard M. Nixon

Great, Support, Ask

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Frederick William Robertson

Life, Men, Wise

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
Augustus Hare

May, Action, Voice

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein

Gratitude, Anyone

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Pearl S. Buck

God, Truth, Coward

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras

Great, Silence, Words

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Publilius Syrus

Regret, Often, Spoken

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant

Act, Prepared, Remain

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
Bryant H. McGill

Shall, Wings, Opposition

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de la Bruyere

Power, Keep, Speak

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Faith, Influence

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Change, Poetry, Through

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Madeleine Albright

Time, Long, Voice

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
Jean de la Bruyere

Everything, Dream, Speak

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.
Ruth St. Denis

Spiritual, Universe, Within

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono

Music, Minds, Sounds

The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
Bob Woodward

Made, Times, Story

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
Simon Mainwaring

Life, Experience, America

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza

Men, Same, Speak

The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Miguel de Cervantes

Love, Eyes, Tongues

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
Catherine Deneuve

Love, Today, Play

I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.
Susan Orlean

Snow, Deep, Lost

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
Malcolm Turnbull

Marriage, Gay, Real

I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.
Mindy Kaling

Live, Parents, Night

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Thornton Wilder

Become, Attentive, Recipients

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
Clara Zetkin

Men, Duty, Voices

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Liberty, Serious, Difficult

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
David Mamet

Tell, Ask, Writer

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
David Mamet

Morning, Mother, Nothing

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
Earl Warren

Person, May, Him

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