Quotes & Sayings About Being Silent And Wise

When the storm-cloud that lowers o'er the daybeam is gone,
Unchanged, unextinguished its life-spring will shine;
When Erin has ceased with their memory to groan,
She will smile through the tears of revival on thine. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sitting on the ground, she looked up at her best friend. "Danke," she said. "Thank you."
Rudy bowed. "My pleasure." He tried for a little more. "No point asking if I get a kiss for that, I guess?"
"For bringing my shoes, which you left behind?"
"Fair enough." He held up his hands and continued speaking as they walked on, and Liesel made a concerted effort to ignore him. She only heard the last part. "Probably wouldn't want to kiss you anyway
not if your breath's anything like your shoes."
"You disgust me," she informed him, and she hoped he couldn't see the escaped beginnings of a smile that had fallen from her mouth. — Markus Zusak

Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not. — Hugh B. Brown

Homer never wondered whether, after their many hand-to-hand struggles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth. — Milan Kundera

We've now become the spectators of our own mutation.
We may not die human anymore.
But what makes us human? — Natasha Tsakos

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk. — Kathy Ireland

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

My sister might be dumb, but that doesn't make her all that different from the rest of us. She's just like any other American. Except she's Canadian. And retarded. — Bonnie McFarlane