Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi -
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford -
I like peace and solitude and silence.
Carla Bruni -
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Walter Elliot -
I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
Anton Zaslavski -
Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
Walter Raleigh
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
Samuel Beckett -
To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
It is on some, but not all, of these misty autumn day-breaks that one may hear the chorus of the quail. The silence is suddenly broken by a dozen contralto voices, no longer able to restrain their praise of the day to come.
Aldo Leopold -
Silence is like a flame, you see?
Marcel Marceau -
I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
Om Malik -
I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.
Kevin Yoder
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The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
Akiva ben Joseph -
Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.
Alafair Burke -
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
James Broughton -
Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.
Max von Sydow -
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis McGinley -
For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
David Wong
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We should not silence our nation's researchers.
Elizabeth Esty -
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson -
Sleep is over-rated. When you're creating, travelling, and having the best time of your life the last thing on your mind is sleep.
Mayte Garcia -
One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.
F. E. Marsh -
A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
Seneca the Younger