Silence Quotes
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Lena held up a hand to silence him. “Say no more, human,” she demanded sternly. After much travail, I have reclaimed my true life. Do not attempt to befuddle me. I need time alone to realign my thoughts.” With a wink, she disappeared beneath the water.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
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The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
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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.
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For many people of color, learning to break the silence is a survival issue. To remain silent would be to disconnect from her own experience, to swallow and internalize her own oppression.The cost of silence is too high.
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Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.
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What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud atmosphere, it's something about 70 decibels.
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If nothing else is left, one must scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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In a breath of silence in a whisper, God speaks to you humbly.
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Dead silence ensued, which was well enough for Ansell, to whom it merely meant that neither of us had any more to say. But to educated people silence matters; it is a token of stupidity and lack of invention.
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The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.
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Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.
