Silence Quotes
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Your very silence shows you agree.
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There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.
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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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Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
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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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It was only in his rare moments of silence, when his face fell into repose and the laughter died out of his eyes and his full lips drooped one upon the other, that one observer in a thousand might have known him for a man who dared not think. In those moments he looked like a mangy, sad old lion looking out upon the splendor of the grand old days from behind the bars of his prison cell.
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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
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Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
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I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
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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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There is a place born of silence A place where the whispers of the heart arise. There is a place where voices sing your beauty A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
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Out there on the plain there is silence, and where there is silence I have discovered there.
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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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There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
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Through silence only the good messages go unheard.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
