Top 1200 Remaining Silent Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

Be aware of the high notes, Of the blissful faces and their soft messages, And listen for the silent message Of a highly decorated gift.

Opportunities are everywhere. Needed are eyes to see the pitiable plight and ears to hear the silent pleadings of a broken heart.

A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.

'Mercury' being a silent film needed a strong background score that could give you chills down the spine.

Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

This much is certain... No initiative put in place starting today can have a substantial effect on the peak production year. No Caspian Sea exploration, no drilling in the South China Sea, no SUV replacements, no renewable energy projects can be brought on at a sufficient rate to avoid a bidding war for the remaining oil.

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

I open my eyes To my own mistake I see all around me Hands getting raized And Questions remain Silent.

It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?

If you're really worried about the effect of "Silent Night" on the kids, you need a hobby or something, and I'm glad you're pointing that out.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I quoted Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, who spoke these words to his former friend: "you are a Villain: I jest not." and then I collapsed into a pool of my own blood.

The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

I'd leave London only for Man United, the club of my dreams. For Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on the bench.

Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.