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.

David Shapiro

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

Byron Katie

If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

A. E. Housman

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

Harold Greene

Antitrust decrees are not written unlike leases for apartments, on a month-to-month basis. They are written for a long, long time, typically, particularly a big decree like this.

Bible Bible

And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

Jim Beaver

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.

Mr Howard

I ... understand that as a result of this issue, the status of that presidential decree is now being reviewed,

Tom Florczak

Once the decree is issued, we'll take our place in the priority system.

Susilo Yudhoyono

not to issue an (emergency) decree in this kind of situation.

Bible Bible

Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.

Shere Hite

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

Gary Andersen

We started playing a little bit soft, playing some zone. Probably shouldn't have done it. Probably should have just kept on going and kept on grinding. But the third quarter was lights out. That was an awesome performance out of the kids, and we got turnovers.

Steve Olson

We started planning last year, looking for a capstone project to encapsulate a bunch of different trades and fields to give the kids an awesome co-op experience.

Bruce Beehler

We stood in awe as the male romped about in the saplings around our entrance trail, flicking his wings and white flank plumes, and whistling his sweet two-note song for the female-plumaged bird. I was too spellbound to go get my camera.

John Pietkiewicz

When you walk in, you're a little bit in awe of a place like this and all the fans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.

Lee Bermejo

I'm definitely not a monthly guy. Probably never will be. I'm simply in awe of the guys who do monthly books well... hell, in awe of people who do monthlies period.

Bud Camp

When you talk to the person, you're making it for them, not for a shop. We've met some of the most awesome people.

Kathryn Hahn

'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

Matt Cain

What's still missing is a tool or service that can migrate the Domino application logic. Domino still is an awesome rapid application development tool. There frankly is nothing (like it) on the market.