Silence Quotes
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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
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Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
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... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.
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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
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Silence is a source of great strenght.
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The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.
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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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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.
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Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.
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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.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence
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May my silences become more accurate.
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The most profound statements are often said in silence.
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I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I'm not going to rot away behind closed doors.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence...
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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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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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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
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Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.
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Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
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When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
