Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Silence gives consent.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• 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
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• 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

• It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Music
  • Water
  • Beach

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don't necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Believe
  • Support

• 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

• It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • May
  • Friend
  • Folly

• 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
  • Time
  • History
  • Silence

• The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Long
  • Quality
  • Better

• 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
  • Records
  • Loner
  • Relaxing

• I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Love
  • Silence
  • Listen

• 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

• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence

• And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Earth
  • Silence

• Moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Money
  • Laws
  • Traps

• And when you're with yourself, oh don't let it go to your head.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Head

• By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Atheism
  • Guilt

• You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.

  

  Trip Hawkins
  • Entrepreneur
  • Failures
  • Mistakes

• Silence gives consent.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Silence