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Tag Name "Silent" (1198)

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Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.
Brennan Manning
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
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Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
Robert Quillen
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Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.
William Blake
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Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
Stephen King
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Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
Robin Hobb
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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Silent customers can be deadly. Encourage them to complain.
Ron Kaufman
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Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.
Cecil Castellucci
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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
Jean de La Fontaine
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Voltaire
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Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.
Tom Hanks
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Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.
Wallace Stevens
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Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.
Tom Robbins
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It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
Wallace Stevens
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Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
Toussaint Louverture
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this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.
Walt Whitman
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Tucker: You guys going to Milwaukee? Guy: Yes sir, heading home after a vacation. Tucker: Did you know there are midgets in Milwaukee? [The man and his wife are silent and confused.] Tucker: HUNDREDS OF THEM!
Tucker Max
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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
Walt Whitman
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But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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