Silence Quotes
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I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.
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Silence, much more powerful than before, much more shot through with the meaning of life and the accumulated wisdom of history.
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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.
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All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.
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The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
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When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they'll say the magic thing that you'd been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don't be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend.
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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.
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The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
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First silence. Then denial. Then support of the insupportable. Then vilification of the dissenters. The pattern is as old as time.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.
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The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
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Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
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Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
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The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
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To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut
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Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.
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Silence is a fence around wisdom.
