Quotes About Silent

Celia said nothing. She might have been carved out of stone.

Wir alle haben im Dachgeschoss der Seele ein Geheimnis unter Verschluss.

She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth.

John was a man of few words and many grunts and one of his grunts could express a volume. He had a variety of them which he adapted as the situation arose. But they all seemed to express his view on life, the principle of which was, 'you leave me be, and I'll leave you be';

Information implicite : même quand il ne se passe rien, il se passe des choses.

They had been in a row, seated along the wall facing the bed. An audience. A dead audience.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying.

The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.

It was not an act of treason, nor possibly even of defiance. But it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. Whatever else was being denied them out of hate, indifference to the power of their vote, loopholes, simple ignorance, this withdrawal was their own, unpublicized, private. Since they could not have withdrawn into a vacuum (could they?), there had to exist the separate, silent, unsuspected world.

At the mention of 9/11, everybody went silent. The events of that day had changed Americans, none more than firefighters.

Hmm…Allen's such a good boy. He hasn't said a word about me.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

Fires Burn in my heart. No smoke rises. No one knows.

How magnificent the city is by the June moonlight! — after the streets are empty and silent.

He's a man of few words," Danielle said with her patented lah-de-dah intonation, although the set to her face belied her tone.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle; it's a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love.

They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief

An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest

Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The Devil's boots don't creak.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.