#silent

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#apt #change #circumstances #dwells #especially

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things. ↗

— Felicia Hemans

#fortitude #hearts #hoping #silent #suffering

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#affairs #because #beginning #during #foreign

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat. ↗

— George Grossmith

#dignity #foot #i #left #mat

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. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

#claims #echoes #fault #greatest #horror

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#came #change #change the world #complicity #denounce

I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#comedy #doctor #downstairs #early #engineer

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#cannot #inevitably #innocent #know #knowledge

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#fellow #fellow americans #great #i #majority

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#bereavement #cares #confusion #curing #despair