Silence Quotes
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But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
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Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.
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I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me.. .Painting is silence.
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It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
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What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?
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Through silence only the good messages go unheard.
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Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants - social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. - and face our own silence is an enormous luxury that should not be taken for granted. The most rewarding moments in my life have stemmed from such stillness.
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People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.
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Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.
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Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.
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There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
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You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
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My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
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The best answers come when you silence your mind.
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It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
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Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
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There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
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Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
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To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
