Elizabeth Chandler Quotes

We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

Elizabeth Chandler

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• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Fear
  • Running
  • Silence

• Silence is a fence around wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Wisdom
  • Silence
  • Fence

• Silence gives consent.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Silence

• 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
  • School
  • She
  • Silence

• 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
  • Beautiful
  • Church
  • Silence

• 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
  • Important
  • History
  • Night

• The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

  

  Akiva ben Joseph
  • Law
  • Wisdom
  • Silence

• 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
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Song

• Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

  

  Phyllis McGinley
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Silence

• A role needs a certain tone, so your own tone also changes. It's not like I lock myself up in a room to get into the zone. It is based on what I am feeling, because the minute you try too much, weird things happen. Of course, for an intense role you need some silence, and you need to do a lot of thinking.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • People
  • Silence

• It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

  

  Brittany Daniel
  • Silence

• Every interaction with another person involves a dance of expectation, even when you're just passing someone in the street. Inside those moments - however brief they may be - there is a kind of anticipatory silence.

  

  David Means
  • May
  • Moments
  • Dance

• Silence is the unbearable repartee.

  

  Alexander Theroux
  • Silence

• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Heart
  • Thoughts
  • Silence

• Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Perfect
  • Silence

• The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

  

  Marie Corelli
  • Silence

• Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.

  

  John Francis
  • Up
  • Silence

• Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Seek
  • Riches
  • Distribute

• Elected leaders in government and our men and women in uniform face a range of unprecedented challenges and pressures that demand innovative solutions.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Men
  • Women

• I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Book
  • Spiritual
  • Hero

• We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Silence
  • Sat
  • Envisioning