Silence Quotes
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To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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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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I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me.. .Painting is silence.
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He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.
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Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.
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What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!
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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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There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
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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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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it's silence, it's beauty, it's humility. Stay aligned to that.
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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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Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
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...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.
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Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
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If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
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He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, “I may not have the right, Silence, me love,” he drawled so soft she nearly didn’t catch the words. “But I would’ve listened to ye. I would’ve believed ye.
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There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
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Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
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Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
