Top 33 Silent Is The Best Answer Quotes
#1. My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.
William The Silent
#2. His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.
Nick Flynn
#3. When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.
Jon Ronson
#4. Like a greater than himself, to the critical question at the critical time he did not answer: and they were again silent.
Thomas Hardy
#5. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous, rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc.
Anne Frank
#6. To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.
John Donne
#7. The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.
Donald Trump
#8. Sometimes when Katy prayed, she could almost hear God's answer - the quiet, still resonance of a Scripture deep in her heart or silent words of wisdom spoken by her parents or the Flanigans.
Karen Kingsbury
#9. Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
Marquis De Sade
#10. Love knows no answer for it does not question.
Silent Lotus
#11. When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.
Robin Leach
#12. Ask her what you want, and she will answer. She listens at mornings and at nights, and her voice is never silent.
Jonathan Aycliffe
#13. None of the dead can rise up and answer our questions. But from all they have left behind, their imperishable and dissolving gear, we may perhaps hear voices, which are only now able to whisper, when everything else has become silent.
Bjorn Kurten
#14. Do not answer, be silent. After all, what could you say? I know too well what you would say. And you have no right to add anything to what you already said once.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#15. Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#16. Swimming is my salvation. Ask me in the middle of winter, or at the end of a grueling day, or after a long stretch at the computer, where I'd most like to be, and the answer is always the same: in the water, gliding weightless, slicing a silent trail through whatever patch of blue I can find.
Lynn Sherr
#17. Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn't say a word.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#18. Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#19. She said, right in front of your mother, that you like blow jobs in the morning."
Another beat of silence.
"She's wrong," Lee finally said. "I like 'em anytime."
This time I was silent for a beat, not certain I liked this answer.
Kristen Ashley
#20. Sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.
Daniel Kahneman
#21. Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.
Alan Wilson
#22. I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
Alger Hiss
#23. When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.
C.S. Lewis
#24. I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.
Diablo Cody
#25. She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.
Anne Frank
#27. I start imagining how the conversation will go, where he calls you, and you answer, and he's silent except for breathing and a few grunts, and you think you have some creeper on the line, hang up on him, and he crushes the phone in his huge, heartbroken hand and never leaves his cabin again." Ellie
Katie Ruggle
#28. I would finally just like to advise you to grow through your development quietly and seriously; you can interrupt it in no more violent manner than by looking outwards, and expecting answer from outside to questions which perhaps only your innermost feeling in your most silent hour can answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#29. If they asked me, I would do anything for the 'South Park' guys.
Marc Jacobs
#30. Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#31. Enoch could respond with nothing more than a simple gesture in the orbs' direction. His brain was frozen. He could not think or speak, but the voiceless answer roused Fallon instantly. When he followed Enoch's gaze, a silent curse passed over his lips and then, We're in big trouble.
S.R. Ford
#32. What is the answer?
[ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ]
In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
#33. To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny
George Washington
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