Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.
My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.
The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.
We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.
When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.
It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
A yawn is a silent shout.
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
Women are such strong, powerful leaders, and a lot of the time, we play it silent.
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
Donald Trump is actually the voice of the silent majority, and I think he's awoken that silent majority. People are very angry, and the people who are the most angry are actually the legal immigrants who see their jobs fleeing.
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.
All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.