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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The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence
William Arthur Ward -
You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
Kat Graham -
I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Socrates -
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty