Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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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 -
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 -
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford -
Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
Gareth Gates -
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell -
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter
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Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
Samuel Alito -
I like peace and solitude and silence.
Carla Bruni -
I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
Mahavira -
I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
Valerie June -
I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
Anton Zaslavski
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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 -
All I know is the dark, the night underground. And that’s all there really is. That’s all there is to know, in the end. The silence, and the dark. You know everything, wizard. But I know one thing - the one true thing!
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Silence is a fence around wisdom.
Maimonides -
And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.
A. E. Housman -
There's a degree of deception in silence.
Don Lemon -
I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
Om Malik
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First, we must continually reaffirm the principle that the security of the United States is not, and should never be, a partisan matter. The United States can best defend its national security interests abroad by uniting behind a bipartisan security policy at home.
William S. Cohen -
People might think Chip is just this goofy guy, and he is a goofy guy. But he's also the bravest person I know.
Joanna Gaines -
Just to see you smile, I'd do anything.That you wanted me to when all is said and done.I'd never count the cost.It's worth all that's lost.Just to see you smile.
Tim McGraw -
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty