Silence Quotes
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the plight of the massacred people of Darfur, or in the recently martyred former Soviet republic Georgia, it makes more sense to use the media than to work in silence.
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Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
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It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many.
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I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!
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He was a reflection of what was going on. The poem 'Howl' was a howl against the hypocrisy and silence of the generations of the 1950s -- of the people who failed to perform their function as real elders.
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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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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.
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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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There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.
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The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.
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People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.
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The greatest sound in the theater is silence.
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Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.
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It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn’t answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.
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No one expected the thunder That came to silence Such beautiful lightning.
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You will not have any moment of silence.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.
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Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
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Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
