Silence Quotes
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When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.
Brand Blanshard
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Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston
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The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
Mother Teresa
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Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.
Galileo Galilei
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No one expected the thunder
That came to silence
Such beautiful lightning.
Fábio Moon
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You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.
Nalini Singh
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I will be waiting here....
For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake,
For your love to wake!
Rumi
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Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already
C. S. Lewis
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With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
Christine Pelosi
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Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.
Isaac of Nineveh
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When we discover the secret of being inwardly at worship while outwardly at work, we find that the soul's silence brings us to God and God to us. Silence takes us beyond the limits of consciousness and into the heart and mind and will of God.
J. Brent Bill
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
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Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars stared back, unblinking, indifferent, unobscured by flying friends. Where was Ron? Where were Fred and Mr Weasley? Where were Bill, Fleur, Tonks, Mad Eye, Mundungus?
Joanne Rowling
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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
Norton Juster
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Don DeLillo
