Silence Quotes
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates -
Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches -
Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
Gabrielle Roy -
French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
Vincent Cassel -
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
Cameron Diaz -
I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye.
Kerry Washington -
Inside the silence is a melody.
Joe Walsh The Eagles
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It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs,' which suggests that while everyone was desperate to read it, he was not desperate to write it.
Jeff Giles -
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell -
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Charlotte Bronte -
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford -
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. Merwin -
Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie -
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
Barry Hannah -
Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
Rumi -
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai -
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
Gary Shteyngart -
I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
Laura Linney
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Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
Lord Byron -
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey -
But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.
Alice Walker -
When a monk takes a vow of silence, is he still allowed to post messages on the Internet? Chances are God won't find out. Being ancient, God probably can't work computers. He holds the mouse gingerly, like it's made of fine china.
Charlie Brooker