Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants.
Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
To be silent is to be complicit.
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.