“ The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. ”
- Mary Webb- Copy
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“ If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard;Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in darkness andAgainst the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the centre of the silent Word. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant. ”
- Zelda Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ There's really no such thing as the "voiceless." There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. ”
- Arundhati Roy- Copy
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“ The surest pledge of a deathless nameIs the silent homage of thoughts unspoken. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane. ”
- Kylie Minogue- Copy
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“ All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever. ”
- Ethel Lynn Beers- Copy
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“ Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ”
- Barbara Tuchman- Copy
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“ If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. ”
- Juan Ruiz- Copy
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“ Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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“ Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. ”
- Tallulah Bankhead- Copy
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“ Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ Discipline must come through liberty… . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. ”
- Maria Montessori- Copy
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“ After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think should. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail…We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self if often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations… ”
- Julie Cameron- Copy
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“ Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
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“ What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play… ”
- John Mayer- Copy
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