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Quotes About Silent

True Tenderness" True tenderness is silent and can't be mistaken for anything else. In vain with earnest desire you cover my shoulders with fur; In vain you try to persuade me of the merits of first love. But I know too well the meaning of your persistent burning glances.
~ Anna Akhmatova
moment as the two men's gazes met, neither attempting
~ Anna Jacobs
I think a lot, but I don't say much.
~ Anne Frank
I don't want to be one of those guys that people just talk about. I'm not good with people talking about me. I'd rather be the guy that just goes out and proves himself, and there's nothing left to say.
~ Greg Oden
The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mount glittered and lay still in the silent valley.
~ Evelyn Waugh
It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
I like Fedor. I like him because Fedor never talk too much before the fight, has a lot of respect for fighters. I like Fedor.
~ Fabricio Werdum
I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
~ Faith Prince
I've been silent for so long I don't know where to start. Anywhere would do. But ancient custom has it that everything begins with the gods.
~ Roberto Calasso
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
Or she could listen to that other voice, the voice that wasn't a voice but something so deep, so indivisible from her own consciousness that it didn't have sound.
~ Lisa Unger
had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.
~ Louisa May Alcott
As part of Rockefeller's silent craft and habit of extended premeditation, he never tipped off his adversaries to his plans for revenge, preferring to spring his reprisals on them.
~ Ron Chernow
She was totally without artifice. If she had nothing to say, she said nothing. If she spoke, or aired an opinion, it was deliberate, considered, intelligent. She did not seem to know the meaning of small talk, and while others chatted, over meals or an evening drink, she was always attentive, but often silent. Her relationships, however, were deeply affectionate and caring.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Part of our challenge is to galvanize and organize this silent majority against jihadism so that it can start challenging the narrative of violence that has been popularized by the organized minority currently dominating the discourse.
~ Sam Harris
Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after having watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own.
~ Alexandre Dumas
What makes a dangerous woman, however, was not always so apparent, for what is unnoticeable to the human eye is often the most deadly attribute.
~ Alice Hoffman
I didn't know if I could speak even if I tried.
~ Alice Hoffman
She wasn't much of a talker when there was nothing to say.
~ Alice Sebold
I can't describe what I'm feeling, she said. To anyone.
~ Alice Sebold
Jack is tall and kind and don't hardly say anything. Love children. Respect his wife, Odessa, and all Odessa amazon sisters. Anything she want to take on, he right there. Never talking much, though. That's the main thing. And then I remember one time he touch me. And it felt like his fingers had eyes. Felt like he knew me all over, but he just touch my arm up near the shoulder.
~ Alice Walker
A sword has a voice.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
~ Joe Haldeman
They are both silent, doubt and grief and fury scuttling between them like beetles in search of a meal. Tetsuo and the girl stare at each other with such deep familiarity that Key feels forgotten, alone—almost ashamed of the dreams that have kept her alive for a decade. They have never felt so hopeless, or so false. "Her name is Key," Tetsuo says, in something like defeat. He turns away, though he makes no move to leave. "She will be your new caretaker.
~ Joe Hill