William Hamilton Maxwell Quotes
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
Ian Axel
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I like a quiet life.
Wendy Cope
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
Epictetus
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I am as silent as death. Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not a glass coffin behind a morgue door. Lie down on your bed not made of ice. Stick your fingers in your ears. Do you hear that? The pulse of life from your heart, the slow in-and-out from your lungs? Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me. Because what if I am dead? How can someone without a beating heart, without breathing lungs live like I do? I must be dead. And this is my greatest fear: After 301 years, when they pull my glass coffin from this morgue, and they let my body thaw like chicken meat on the kitchen counter, I will be just like I am now. I will spend all of eternity trapped in my dead body. There is nothing beyond this. I will be locked within myself forever. And I want to scream. I want to throw open my eyes wake up and not be alone with myself anymore, but I can't. I can't.
Beth Revis
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
Warren Christopher
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
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I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
William Hamilton Maxwell
