#silent

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. ↗

— Pythagoras

#deal #few #great #great deal #hazard

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.' ↗

— Mitt Romney

#bomber #conversation #our #remain #right

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings. ↗

— John Ford

#griefs #silent #which

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#coal #could #fields #fight #figures

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once. ↗

— Mark Russell

#just #like #never #once #out

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#hush #love #over #silent #spring

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.' ↗

— David Mamet

#am #ask #course #hemingway #i

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good! ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#abstractly #am #annoys #call #chinese

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#always #back #character #gets #girl

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ↗

— George Carlin

#nights #only #silent #wolves