Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart
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. "
The unspoken word never does harm.
When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.
Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real. . . There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.
The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. . . yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
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. '
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.
Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time.
The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule.
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.
Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.
I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani. . . Max Perutz, and. . . Fred Sanger. . . From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest. "
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D. C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
So much of courtship is the unspoken.
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.