Silence Quotes
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Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.
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I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
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You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
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'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
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We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
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In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.
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The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.
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When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
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The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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We should not silence our nation's researchers.
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In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.
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Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.
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When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
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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.
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To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.
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All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
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Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.
