Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.Simone de Beauvoir
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Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi -
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 -
I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
Gabrielle Giffords -
Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
Gareth Gates -
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
Kate Forsyth -
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
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We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
Daniel Barenboim -
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis -
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 -
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 -
Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.
Annie Proulx
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She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.
Aleister Crowley -
Climate change is not an excuse to silence political speech.
Luther Strange -
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.
Darren Shan -
We should not silence our nation's researchers.
Elizabeth Esty -
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
Marlee Matlin
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We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still works even when Washington's dysfunctional.
Barack Obama -
My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
Ralph Bakshi -
It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.
Albert Einstein -
I kind of wish they’d shut up,” Jack said. “Dude, true dat,” Lend answered. Jack nodded solemnly. “For serious.
Kiersten White -
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
Simone de Beauvoir