Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Charles Dickens

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

Alan Watts

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Chogyam Trungpa

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Chogyam Trungpa

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Dmitri Mendeleev

No one nor anything can silence me.

Diane Setterfield

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

Chord Overstreet

I love John Stamos. John's a really friendly, cool dude.

David Cross

I know Dave [Attel] and we're friendly, and I have nothing but respect for him.

Marge Kennedy

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

Ed Koch

The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.

Bobby Flay

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

Charlotte Bronte

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him

Boris Yeltsin

We remain friends, ... in a very friendly atmosphere.

Sandra Miller

We were in a state of shock upon hearing the news. He was very personable, friendly and outgoing. He always was very professional.

Bob Zeh

We're friendly enemies, I guess you could say.

David Nail

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

Mark Cuban

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

Bruce Hornsby

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

Deepak Chopra

Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Ron Cowen

I don't share your optimism. We can talk about this for 19 hours, because I get pretty passionate about it.

William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My siblings and I were raised to be very hardworking and to find something that we're passionate in, and to be able to turn that into work - I'm lucky to be able to say that I've done that.

Jane Goodall

I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then there's the violent, brutal side that has evolved with us. The question for each individual is: which side is going to come out on top?