Silence Quotes
-
The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
-
Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.
-
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
-
Summer makes a silence after spring.
-
Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.
-
And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
-
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt.
-
If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.
-
The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.
-
How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!
-
There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.
-
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.
-
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.
-
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
-
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
-
It speaks to me in the silence of this one then through the words of that one speaking; it whispers to me through an eyebrow raised and the message of an eye winking.
-
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
-
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.
-
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.
-
Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. THe issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way that eliminates the noise.
-
I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
