Silence Quotes
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Silence gives consent.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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Silence is a fence around wisdom.
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Oh, love is timid in its birth!Watching her lightest look or stir,As he but look'd and breathed with her.Gay words were passing, but he leantIn silence; yet, one quick glance sent,-His secret is no more his own,When has woman her power not known?
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It was amazing how quickly the silence fell on the crowd. It went from being so loud that you could barely hear the guys 20 feet away on the on-deck circle, to hearing my own footsteps loud and clear as I rounded the bases…that's never happened to me before.
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Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.
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I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.
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While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
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Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
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The day in his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm.
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Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
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As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.
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I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.
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There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?
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As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
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Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.
