Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi
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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
Irving Kirsch
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Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
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If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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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.
Ingmar Bergman
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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
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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.
Wendell Berry
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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.
Lord Byron
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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.
Antonin Scalia
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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.
Leonardo da Vinci
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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
Alan Parsons
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
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I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
Om Malik
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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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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Pythagoras
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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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are but mechanisms, which will perish with the span of man's life. It is the essence beyond, that which is the motive power, and makes man live, that is now compelled to rouse itself and act.
Mabel Collins
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Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about music. I'm not sure why that is. There seems to be more to write about with music, just because it's more of a splintered thing. There's more subgenres. With sports, it's more objective in a way.
Chuck Klosterman
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I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette