Silence Quotes
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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.
Charles Eliot Norton
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The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
Maureen Dowd
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That smell—cigarette—it always made me think of him. He smoked his cigarette. I drove. I didn’t mind the silence and the desert and the cloudless sky. What did words matter to a desert?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
Sidney Hook
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Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
Beryl Markham
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After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.
Emil Cioran
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A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
Eugene Kennedy
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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.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.
David Shapiro
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You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.
Hilary Mantel
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Out there on the plain there is silence, and where there is silence I have discovered there.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free.6 The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his Word, he abides in you.
Christine Caine
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
Soren Kierkegaard
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action ...
Stephanie Perkins
