Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly.

Denis Diderot

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

Hebrew Proverb

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two

Ben Jonson

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences can be as different as sounds.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Deepak Chopra

Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful.

Hesham Qandil

We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims.

John C. Reilly

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Ban Ki-moon

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Eckhart Tolle

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Bruce Cockburn

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Albert Schweitzer

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

Albert Schweitzer

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

Nathaniel Willis

Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame's ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the darkness fall.

Guru Singh

Let everyone fall at the feet of the True Guru, He has dispelled the darkness of emotional attachment.

Atharva Veda

May our friends be dear to us! May those who hate us, end up in darkness of ignorance!

Edgar Allan Poe

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

National Gallery

From Darkness into Light: Printmaking in Sweden 1890-1960

Eddie Vedder

Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?