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Unspoken feelings are unforgettable. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time. -- Terry Goodkind
Unspoken words between you and I,Present in the eyes of knowing,Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty,I am yours. -- Truth Devour
What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial. -- Terry Tempest Williams
The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the tears rejoice Because they can flow and flow. Sweetbrier around Moscow, Alas! Somehow it is here ... And all this they will call Love eternal. -- Anna Akhmatova
The unspoken word never does harm. -- Lajos Kossuth
It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets. -- David Copperfield
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. -- Michael Leunig
Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.' -- Matt Damon
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes. -- Marian Wright Edelman
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing. -- Kim Raver
To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years. -- Noah Feldman
I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington. -- Mark Leibovich
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them. -- Seamus Heaney
It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor. -- Jeff Dunham
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life. -- Rian Johnson
Many of the people who are most considered anti-American would love to partake of the American dream: the unspoken slogan of many protesters outside U.S. embassies abroad is really: 'Yankee go home, but take me with you.' -- Shashi Tharoor
Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich. -- Viola Davis
I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken. -- Vera Farmiga
It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices. -- Antony Beevor
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years. -- Hamdi Ulukaya
Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing. -- Jerry Saltz
In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life? -- Chris Noth
There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I'd done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good. -- Roger Bannister
Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking. -- Ray Comfort
I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family. -- Todd Phillips
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader. -- Cam Newton
One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about being Scottish. Whereas, if you are in London and you are trying to put films together and be a film-maker, there is a kind of unspoken sense that, if you are Scottish, you have something to overcome or else you cannot really do that project. -- Peter Capaldi
I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job. -- Daley Thompson
Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship. -- Kim John Payne
So much of courtship is the unspoken. -- Megan McCafferty
With every word unspoken each moment comes undone. -- Tarkan
Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment. -- Mason Cooley
A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought. -- Henry Ford
Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say. -- Toba Beta
Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears. -- Alice Hoffman
Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people? -- Tennessee Williams
It exposed a universally relatable, oft-times unspoken truth we all suppress. -- Ken Poirot
The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'. -- Amit Kalantri
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken. -- George Eliot
And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night. -- Bradley Nowell
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses. -- Aaron McGruder
We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent? -- Karl Shapiro
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words. -- Anna Akhmatova
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? -- Douglas Coupland
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it. -- Mark Twain
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken. -- Ankita Singhal
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color. -- Nnedi Okorafor
Secrets that reside in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears. -- Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could. -- Elizabeth Smart
How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken. -- Norman Douglas
Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof. -- Chris Murray
Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way. -- Fred Alan Wolf
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. -- Russell Sherman
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. -- James Ellroy
The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained. -- William Penn
Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men. -- Steve Kluger
You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule. -- Eva Longoria
When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours. -- Sidney Poitier
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener -- Marshall McLuhan
Sometimes the words that we keep in our hearts, no matter how unmistakable, are best left unspoken. -- Jourdane Erasquin
Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos. -- Shannon L. Alder
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. -- David Foster Wallace
Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken. -- R.D. Blackmore
Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words,the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds. -- Toba Beta
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open. -- Adyashanti
Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth. -- Amit Kalantri
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood. -- Alexandra Adornetto
I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule. -- Bree Despain
I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth. -- Eudora Welty
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured. -- Lillian Hellman
Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. -- James Elkins
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me. -- John Irving
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. -- Stephen King
There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help. -- Thomas S. Monson
It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money. -- Mark Hart
Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on. -- Richard LaGravenese
I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air. -- Lisa Kleypas
His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father. -- Will Rogers, Jr.
Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving. -- Rory Stewart
Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms. -- Stanley Nelson Jr.
Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take. -- David Simon
You broke all your promises,the ones you whispered in my ears and the unspoken ones,you gambled with my feelings and we both lost. -- Michael Hayssus
The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a ton to tell that must remain unspoken. -- Moondog
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it -- David Eddings
Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time. -- Tom Upton
But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy. -- Miljenko Jergovic
Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need. -- Matthew Pearl
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What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken. -- Homer
Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long. -- Pamela Stephenson
I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken. -- John Robinson
Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. -- Ahmad Shamloo
Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken. -- Lisa Kleypas
I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors. -- Maeve Binchy
Theres this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldnt be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians. -- Margot Kidder
My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me. -- Ian Mcewan
Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises. -- Rick Yancey
For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature -- Thaddeus Norris
Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together. -- Shannon L. Alder
I think the worst professional advice I received was this kind of unspoken message of "sit back and wait your turn," or "sit back and wait and let other people do things." -- Jim Gaffigan
Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them. -- Diane Dreher
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message. -- Vernon Lee
In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth. -- Kaori Yuki
A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with. -- January Jones
So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication. -- Garth Stein
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. -- Homer
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people. -- Rachel Joyce
Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken. -- Tian Dayton
It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change. -- Rose Wilder Lane

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