#silent

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#dynamic #impression #remaining #saying #significant

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer. ↗

— Robin Leach

#answering #because #better #give #give me

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

#directors #finished #gone #great #great talent

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#difficult #discern #liberty #religious #religious liberty

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives. ↗

— Robert Reich

#conservatives #even #last #liberal #majority

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#face #keep #man #silent #tyranny

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

— Sammy Hagar

#being #called #extreme #had #humans

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. ↗

— King George V

#come #desolation #earth #i #many

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#cinematic #clinic #cover #entertaining #film

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

— William Gilmore Simms

#grateful #likely #made #men #most