#silently

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

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#destiny #important #important decisions #known #life

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#exception #first #least #neighbors #silently

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#artist #communication #different #different way #explore

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. ↗

— Beatrix Potter

#almost #behave #believe #causes #endless

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#breeze #dreamed #flitting #flowers #fluent

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#did #eighteen #father #first #himself

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#joy #path #remain #silently #those

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#appearing #around #big #came #come