Silence Quotes
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Not in Chicago, in the heat of June, but at the ballot-boxes of the Republic, in the quiet of November, after the silence of deliberate judgment, will this question be settled. And now, gentlemen of the Convention, what do we want?
James A. Garfield
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I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.
Jim Gaffigan
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The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.
Bennett Miller
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All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.
James Martineau
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Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Marianne Wiggins
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If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.
Matthew Perry
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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
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The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
Sandra Fluke
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When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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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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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
Sophocles
