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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Martin Luther King
“Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.”
Dalai Lama
“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
Sigmund Freud
“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.”
Bernard Meltzer
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.”
Horace
“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”
Honore de Balzac
“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
Honore de Balzac
“Laws are silent in time of war.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In time of war the laws are silent.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Victor Hugo
“I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”
Winston Churchill
“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“This love is silent.”
Thomas Stearns Eliot
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
George Carlin
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
James Madison
“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.”
John Muir
“On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'”
Mitt Romney
“The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.”
Donald Trump
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Edmund Burke
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
Plutarch
