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Quotes About Silent

There was still a question in her eyes-- one that she did not like to put into words.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
For the action of grace in our hearts is secret and silent.
~ Simone Weil
My voice is clotted with unshed tears.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Silent is the ruined land.Man is brutaland the rain does not wash awaythe painor rid the distant memory.It makes it glisten.
~ Cecil Castellucci, Boy Proof
Pain whispersthrough silent wordsentombed in scarsshyly palpablein fleeting glimpsesbriefly allowed
~ Lady Bug
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
~ Elliott Erwitt
That sleepy, sensual smile of hers ought to be outlawed. It said everything, without saying anything.
~ Eloisa James
Grace leaned against Colin, who was silently watching the lively chatter. That was characteristic of him, actually. And then she realized that they were a pair, a silent, observant couple. Still, in the circle of his arm, she wasn't a lonely observer. She wasn't a wallflower, anymore. She could be herself rather than wishing she was more vivacious, more full of chatter, more like Lily.
~ Eloisa James
The change is what every one feels, though no one can define it. Each predominant mind calls out a corresponding sentiment in the country: most feel it a little. Those who feel it much express it much; those who feel it excessively express it excessively; those who dissent are silent, or unheard.
~ bagehot walter xvii
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.
~ balzac honore de xv
Nature, that good and tender parent, has set round about the mother of a family the most reliable and the most sagacious of spies, the most truthful and at the same time the most discreet in the world. They are silent and yet they speak, they see everything and appear to see nothing.
~ balzac honore de xxii
They could smile back and forth without speaking, like soldiers who had fought side by side. The
~ Banana Yoshimoto
My memories of that time are fleeting, but they will never vanish completely, because the unexpected encounters of our lives will always remain with us, causing us great pain in the silent ways we evoke them.
~ B?o Ninh
The greatest loves are those kept in secret.
~ Barbara Haworth-Attard
You are all pulling light, which is data and information, onto the planet, and as you do this you create new pathways for consciousness to explore without even saying a word.
~ Barbara Marciniak
In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.
~ barth karl ii
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
~ Charles Dickens
and suddenly, without the slightest volition on my part, there was the most crashing discharge of wind, like the report of a mortar. My horse started; Cardigan jumped in his saddle, glaring at me.....Be Silent! snaps he, and he must have been in a highly nervous condition himself, otherwise he would never have added, in a hoarse whipser: Can you not contain yourself, you disgusting fellow?--Flashman at the start of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
a tiny, ailing, very silent child of two or three, with a face made simian by thinness.
~ George Orwell
Delivering the speech was a surreal experience. The delegates sat silent, almost frozen in place. It was like speaking to a wax museum.
~ George W. Bush
He was silent. Well! Now she knew how right she had been. He was not in the least in love with her, and very happy she was to know it. All she wanted was a suitable retreat, such as a lumber-room, or a coal-cellar, in which to enjoy her happiness to the full.
~ Georgette Heyer
In 'Tom and Jerry,' there was hardly any dialogue at all. It was all action. It required a great many drawings to make.
~ William Hanna
I thought of the boy I had been, his murderous, pent-up hatred, of his strange, silent green glass maelstorm of wrath.
~ Sarah Monette
I sleep, and dream I am moving, swiftly, in a high-prowed boat, upon a dark and silent water.
~ Sarah Waters