Silence Quotes
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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.
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to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance
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Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere
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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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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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Being a lady does not require silence.
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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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Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.
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And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know.
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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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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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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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The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
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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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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
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Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.
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The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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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.
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You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'
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There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.
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In the green fields a turnin', a baby is born His cries crease the wind and mingle with the morn An assault upon the order, the changing of the guard Chosen for a challenge that is hopelessly hard And the only single sound is the sighing of the stars But to the silence and distance they are sworn.
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For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
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Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
