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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Think You Better Act Prepared

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

Freedom Freedom Of Speech Sheep Dumb

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Fool Thought Better Speak

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Poetry Painting Speaks

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Morning Tree Look Quality

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Friendship Friend Moment Grief

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Moon Wolves Only Nights

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Friend Heart Soul Lips

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

Music Impossible Said Cannot

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

Simple Walk Small Things Small

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Good People Tyranny Gain Conscience

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

Flower God Sun Darkness

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

Richard Le Gallienne

Love Beauty Love Is Smiles

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

Alone Me Never Not Talking

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Grief Tears Sympathy Language

Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.

Music Best Together Power

There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the nicest, most caring people in your field, get involved with charity work. The thankless hours that go into planning charity dinners, running a carnival, and gathering donations for silent auctions are noticed and appreciated.

Work Good People Caring

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Life Attitude You Political

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Eyes Lips See May

Modeling is really silent acting.

Modeling Acting Really

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Tree Storm Trees Never

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Malala Yousafzai

Power World Powerful Voice Whole

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Madeleine Albright

Me Time I Am Long

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

People Speak More Noise

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

Wassily Kandinsky

Man Blue White Pure

This love is silent.

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