Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu -
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
Samuel Butler -
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 -
To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Silence is a fence around wisdom.
Maimonides -
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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Those who saw him hushed. On Church Street. Liberty. Cortlandt. West Street. Fulton. Vesey. It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
Colum McCann -
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Pythagoras -
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 -
Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.
Matt Haig -
Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti
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It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.
Brittany Daniel -
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Che Guevara -
And then there creptA little noiseless noise among the leaves,Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
John Keats -
Be silent always when you doubt your Sense.
Alexander Pope -
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one's arms again transcendental experiences became possible.
Mark Rothko -
Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.
Poul Anderson
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The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
Idries Shah -
It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.
African Spir -
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.
R. A. Torrey -
All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.
Ray Bradbury