Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin. ' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello. '
There is no time to leave important words unsaid.
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.
Some promises are better left unsaid
Some things need to be left unsaid.
The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.
And things go unsaid soon get forgotten
What goes unsaid eventually goes unthought
Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera)
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
I didn’t ask. Some things are better left unsaid. He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him. Never will. He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. Later we would go to bed, and when he rose over me, dark and vast and eternal, I’d know joy.
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
She wished such words unsaid with all her heart
. . . the whole idea of WHAT HAPPENED WAS. . . . is not about dating. It is more about people who are not committed to who they are or are indifferent about their life in general, which is how I felt about myself when I wrote it. I had turned 40 and I was unhappy and I wanted to write about that. Dating just became the framework. . . . I like all those fringy, weird, nonverbal, quiet, tiny little things, those powerful interchanges between people, things that go unsaid, that people know are happening all the time but nobody wants to talk about. That's what I want to make movies about.
