Quotes about silence
silence silent silence-is
Nothing is more useful than silence. Menander
silence strategy discourse
There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. Michel Foucault
silence seeing
The price of seeing is silence. Marge Piercy
silence speech cold
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. Theodore Parker
silence may accuracy
May my silences become more accurate. Theodore Roethke
silence definitions way
In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself Harvey Fierstein
silence source source-of-strength
Silence is a great source of strength. John Heider
silence intuition tasks
Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence. Rainer Maria Rilke
silence speak surrender
Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground. Michelle Malkin
silence poetic flattering
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
silence language apocalypse
I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence. Neil Gaiman
silence shadow sun
When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence. Mark Strand
silence solitude chatter
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. Marilu Henner
silence able
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
silence significant conversation
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence. Simon Van Booy
silence born given
Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them. Rajneesh
silence doe silent
If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease. Socrates
silence noise world
The loudest noise in the world is silence. Thelonious Monk
silence ems answers
Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right. Terry Pratchett
silence language inertia
Silence is the language of inertia. Margaret Heffernan
silence mind criticism
The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination! Michael Faraday
silence down-and speak
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. Ray Bradbury
silence said perfume
Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
silence dawn emptiness
All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.
silence silence-is my-friends
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words. Enoch Powell
silence feelings shame
My feelings for you shame me into silence. Henry Rollins
silence speech conversation
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. Henry David Thoreau
silence music-is
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life. Plato
silence entertainment industry
The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. Laura Linney
silence cones crave
I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
silence answers bullets
...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet. Lisa Kleypas
silence say-anything
Never say anything unless you have to. John Travolta
silence may opinion
if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. John Stuart Mill