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.

Philip Tod

Many of those questions are being discussed at ministerial level. You don't get answers to sensitive political questions during an exercise.

Barry Long

Self-knowledge is the discovery of the new, it looks beyond the world that has all the answers and no solutions.

Aidan White

Media organizations and journalists' families face a wall of silence and an unfeeling bureaucracy that refuses to give clear and credible answers to questions.

Evan Bayh

Of course, it's a matter of courtesy. Like many of my colleagues, I'm interested in what he has to say, and we won't know that until he's asked and answers the questions.

Lawrence Fisher

No one questioned the investigation 10 years ago, but there are enough holes being discovered now and obvious questions that weren't posed to make me want the answers now.

Michele Jackson

No one ever gave us any answers as to why he had the stroke.

Igor Ivanov

Must the UNMOVIC and IAEA inspectors continue their work in Iraq in the interest of a political settlement? Have all the necessary conditions to that end been met? Russia answers yes to that question. The conditions are there. The inspectors must continue their inspections. And this is a position shared by the overwhelming majority of states in the world, including within the Security Council of the United Nations.

John Barlow

New media, like any chaotic system, are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Today's heuristical answers of the moment become tomorrow's permanent institutions of both law and expectation.

Harold Koenig

New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.