Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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Silence is also conversation.
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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
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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.
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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.
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In secret we metIn silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.
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In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.
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The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.
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While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
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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.
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To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
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Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
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My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.
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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words.
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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
