Just Keep Silent Quotes

#1. Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn't people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?

Michel Faber

#2. She did not wish to die, but if torture was the price she had to pay to keep her lover's love, then she only hoped he was pleased that she had endured it. All soft and silent she waited, waited for them to bring her back to him. None

Pauline Reage

#3. What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

Muriel Rukeyser

#4. If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death.

Dave Davidson

#5. No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.

Jed Rubenfeld

#6. So many of you have lost everything. I don't know what to say to you. But the Lord does know what to say to you. Some of you have lost part of your families. All I can do is keep silence and walk with you all with my silent heart.

Pope Francis

#7. About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

Teresa Of Avila

#8. Smartass Disciple : Master, why you keep telling about the truth? Nobody hears.
Master of Stupidity : O Yea. They hear but don't listen. Anyway, no fun in silent.

Toba Beta

#9. I must keep silent. Silent. And let Love describe itself.

Rumi

#10. How can I keep silent? How can I stay quiet?
My friend, whom I loved, has turned to clay,
my friend Enkidu, whom I loved has turned to clay.
Shall I not be like him, and also lie down,
never to rise again, through all eternity?

Anonymous

#11. Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

L.P. Hartley

#12. When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

Amit Kalantri

#13. I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

John Updike

#14. I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

Azar Nafisi

#15. We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

Pierre Nicole

#16. Every man has at least one nightmare he'd like to keep to himself.

Amber Silvia

#17. It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

Tom Smothers