Silence Quotes
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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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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 never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
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Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
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A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
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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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Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.
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Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.
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Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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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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I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.
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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
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There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
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To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
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I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me.. .Painting is silence.
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We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.
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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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I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action ...
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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.
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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.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
