Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone

Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent

The master rode alone that day; and in the woods, side by side, White Fang ran with Collie, as his mother, Kiche, and old One Eye had run long years before in the silent Northland forest.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

Cannibalism is a Western, white imposition. A retrospective racism. Tribal memory, collective dreams and wishful thinking should, if not silence, then at least reduce to a tearful academic whisper any attempt to discredit the lives of Indians. Haven’t they suffered enough?

Sometimes you will talk so that he cannot answer. Sometimes you will be so silent that he will not dare to speak in front of you.

It is happiness if you laugh together, If you cry together, it is friendship; but if you are silent together, this is real love.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

The things of nature are the Lord’s silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

The great silent majority.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

My delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question — we who have such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that we cannot be silent.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

If you love with violence and you hate with violence, there’s nothing that can be questioned. People say, ‘Oh, you’d better work through your resentments.’ Yeah, no. I’m gonna hang on to them, and they’re gonna fuel my attack. And they’re going to fuel the battle cry of my deadly and dangerous and secret and silent soldiers. Because they’re all around you. Sorry, you thought you were just messing with one dude. Winning.

Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant of an impression by remaining silent.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition – even when it seems to be doing a little good – we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

But when weariness finally forced him to be silent, he was no longer of use to his tormentors, and they sought amusement elsewhere.

To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

Success is like a fart – it’s best when it’s silent but deadly.

Everyone thinks I’m showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I’m silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I’m tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

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