Silence Quotes
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If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.
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It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
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Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
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The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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....it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.
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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.
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To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.
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A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
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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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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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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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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.
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Silence gives consent.
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Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
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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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David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.
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Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.
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The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.
