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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.
I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.
Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type
Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
When you are a talkative and expressive person in real life, it definitely gets difficult to play someone who is so silent.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.
We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.
Silent people are dangerous; others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux; Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending.
100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.
We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.
I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
Angus and I had silent dreams about playing in a band since we were kids, always playing our guitars and listening to records.
We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.
I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.
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.
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn't want to hear from it, it got chatty. It was alost as irritating as Fang.
Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.
So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.
In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent killer.
Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.
Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.
In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.
All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.