Silence Quotes
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I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
Elie Wiesel
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Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
Marlee Matlin
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When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.
Allen Neuharth
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The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.
Anthony Lewis
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Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.
Jacques Delille
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If my energy was fake, then I would feel pressured, because I gotta, like, keep this up. I thank God it's just how I am. But I find myself wanting to work on being more comfortable in the silence with people.
Jonathan Van Ness
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Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
Edmund S. Muskie
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When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
Lev Grossman
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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
Mahatma Gandhi
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with what violence benevolence is bought what cost in gesture justice brings what wrongs domestic rights involve what stalks this silence
Charles Olson
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All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.
Paulo Coelho
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But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.
Alastair Reynolds
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Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
Iris Johansen
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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston
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We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.
David Jeremiah
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I think 'taste' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
John Updike
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I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
Philippa Gregory
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CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.
Paul Weyrich
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.
Bayazid Bastami
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Spend as much time as you can in silence. Look at the way the sun paints the ground gold.
Carolyn Chute
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C. S. Lewis
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You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price, you may succeed in silencing one man, but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.
Alexander Litvinenko