Eric Thomas Quotes

You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

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• Silence is my dignity.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Silence
  • Dignity

• There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Lives

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• 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
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• 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
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Silence

• Silence is a fence around wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Wisdom
  • Silence
  • Fence

• 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
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• 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 like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.

  

  Om Malik
  • Silence

• There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • People
  • Mother
  • Silence

• 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.
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

  

  Jay Griffiths
  • Children
  • 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

• I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

  

  Darren Shan
  • Music
  • Silence

• To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

  

  Plato
  • May
  • Silence

• 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
  • Ignorance

• Silence is argument carried out by other means.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Silence

• I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • People
  • Attention
  • Dance

• I want to gather up all the words in the world and write them down on little pieces of paper—then throw them in the air. They would look like tiny sparrows flying toward the sun. Without all those words, the sky would be clear and perfect and blue. The deafening world would be beautiful in all that silence.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Air
  • Silence
  • Write

• Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Mother
  • Prayer
  • Silence

• Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Time
  • You
  • Just Because

• You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Silence
  • Charge
  • Composure