Silence Quotes
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.
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Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
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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.
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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
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Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
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A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
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Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.
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I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
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I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.
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It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.
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Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.
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He has embarrassed the government. By continuing as minister without portfolio he has earned himself a price for silence.
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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
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Everyone who is grieved at anything, or discontented, is like a pig for sacrifice, kicking and squealing. Like a dove for sacrifice is he who laments in silence. Our one distinction is that it is given to us to consent, if we will, to the necessity imposed upon us.
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Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.
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'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
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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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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
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Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Grave silence is far more powerful than the same old voices yapping away.
