Silence Quotes
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates -
I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye.
Kerry Washington
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To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches -
Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
Gabrielle Roy -
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
Cameron Diaz -
French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
Vincent Cassel -
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell -
Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
Rumi -
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey -
Inside the silence is a melody.
Joe Walsh The Eagles -
Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi -
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Charlotte Bronte
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
Barry Hannah -
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai -
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. Merwin -
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie -
It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs,' which suggests that while everyone was desperate to read it, he was not desperate to write it.
Jeff Giles
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
Laura Linney -
After my wife and I were married, we obtained a rescue dog from a family that didn't want her anymore. She was a beautiful Collie/Shepherd mix named 'Precious.' It then came to pass that our first marital 'debate' was whether we should change the dog's name away from the same name used by the wacky villain in 'Silence of the Lambs.'
Bob Peterson -
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
Gary Shteyngart -
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
Baltasar Gracian