I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

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

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford and you cannot be any more accurate than that so that helped a lot.

I was silent as a child and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth now but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

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.

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.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.

There are two ways of attaining an important end force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

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

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.

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

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.

All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed dumb and silent when all else sings together in unison?

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning you're dead.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Wise men when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet give themselves the benefit of the doubt and remain silent.

Those who condemn gay marriage yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce are in my view missing the real issue.