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.

Alan Watts

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

Audre Lorde

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

Arthur Rimbaud

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Dean Koontz

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

Carlos Fuentes

chaos: it has no plural.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

Alexander Pope

Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.

Lucinda Franks

She (Virginia Kelley) describes the chaos ... She describes an incident in which Bill's grandmother and she literally were pulling him apart,

Yuval Diskin

When you dismantle a system in which there is a despot who controls his people by force, you have chaos. I'm not sure we won't miss Saddam.

Mohsin Hamid

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.

Jolanda Schreurs

We are at a point where the major issues are moot. Those formerly unhappy now, from what we understand in conversations, support our current efforts. The politics is such where we feel it's an important conversation with the full board.

Terry Pendleton

We struck up a conversation right then like we'd known each other for years. Since then, it'd been that way.

Baltasar Gracian

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Steve Chapman

We're making light of the subject itself. And they look pretty funny. They're good conversation pieces.

Eliot Spitzer

We were hoping to initiate a conversation with them that would lead to an agreed-upon schedule,

Scott Dover

Throughout the conversation, he (Angle) threatened to come out of the house with a firearm, despite pleas by the negotiator for him to come out unarmed.

Charles Gradante

There is conversation that over the next ten years, hedge funds would become like mutual funds, ... There is some merit to that conversation, but I think there might be some lag time.