#silent

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#exercises #faith #inevitable #influence #life

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

A yawn is a silent shout. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#silent #yawn

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#been #cheese #mysteriously #poets #silent

Laws are silent in time of war. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#silent #time #war

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. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#especially #honest #humanity #i #i can

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#brought #carrying #fact #few #forever

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#i #ringing #silent #skull