Betty Ford Quotes

Being a lady does not require silence.

Betty Ford

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• Silence is also conversation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Silence
  • Conversation
  • Also

• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Silence is my dignity.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Silence
  • Dignity

• Silence is a source of great strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Silence
  • Strength

• 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
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Silence

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • House
  • Sleep

• Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Age
  • Night
  • Memories

• What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Silence

• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence

• To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Silence

• Silence is a fence around wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Wisdom
  • Silence
  • Fence

• When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • People
  • Different

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• Bob Hope: By the way, this is where Bing did his last show and I think they've done very nicely. They've gotten most of it out of the curtains.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Done
  • Hope

• Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

  

  Andrew Johnson

• I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Industry
  • Entertainment
  • Charles Dickens

• Being a lady does not require silence.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Silence
  • Doe
  • Being A Lady