Silent

Famous quotes containing the word silent:

“But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the way-side as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,—”Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I love order. It’s my dream. A world where all would be silent and still and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)