Silent But Powerful Quotes

#1. When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

Alison McGhee

#3. But I could be wrong.

Carl Sagan

#4. Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts happening by itself.

Rajneesh

#5. I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.

A. J. Buckley

#6. To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Confucius

#7. For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

Denis Lavant

#8. What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

Ronald Dworkin

#9. The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye ...

David Benioff

#10. When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful.

Deepak Chopra

#11. There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

Ronald Reagan

#12. If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.

Carolyn Meyer

#13. I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

William Howard Taft

#14. No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

Michael Strahan

#15. Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. You gotta trust your artist. I love writing pages without dialogue, which seems weird, I guess. But few things are as powerful in comics as a really strong silent page.

Jason Aaron

#17. You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first place. Don't despair! Your usefulness to God is based on His consistency, not yours. Your call is sustained by God's faithfulness, not yours.

Jeff Iorg

#18. The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. Silent or gagged women are powerless women. A powerful woman is one who can speak out to challenge existing power structures or to explore previously taboo territory.

Julian Barnes

#20. She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions.

Laura Kreitzer

#21. The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

Blaise Pascal

#22. Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in the boundaries of rational thought.

Deepak Chopra

#23. A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#24. What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

Mary C. Ames

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

Malala Yousafzai

#26. she prays to feel as powerful
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now

Beth Morey

#27. In spite of the enormous complexity of macroscopic bodies when viewed from an atomistic viewpoint, one knows from everyday experience as well as from precision experiments that macroscopic bodies obey quite definite laws.

Franz Mandl