#silent

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#become #confidences #recipients #silent #those

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#causes #correctness #feeling #got #hate

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. ↗

— Horace

#modest person #passes #person #reserved #silent

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#become #begin #day #end #lives

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. ↗

— Maurice Switzer

#remaining-silent #wisdom #wisdom

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#any #famous #going #hope #i

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#had #happier #men #same #silent

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#everything #going #images #movie #see

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#different things #dream #equal #everything #indifferent

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#alive #almost #cowardly #dangerous #dead