Quotes about silence
silence modesty think-and-grow-rich
Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence. Napoleon Hill
silence enemy silent
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. Norman Maclean
silence shadow world
I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows. Novala Takemoto
silence scandal
Silence kills scandal. Mason Cooley
silence answers silence-is
silence is the most intolerable of answers. Mason Cooley
silence too-much rooms
The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn. Mason Cooley
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 movement eloquence
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence... Joan Miro
silence ifs
If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both. Joan Baez
silence response refuse
To refuse to respond is in itself a response. Madeleine L'Engle
silence sides communion
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence. Madeleine L'Engle
silence way vibrations
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. Madeleine L'Engle
silence silent said
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. Lucy Maud Montgomery
silence trying half
If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying. Lucy Maud Montgomery
silence important done
Silence is so important when you're working, You must have periods where you don't hear anything, just to reflect on you've already done. Otherwise you traumatize your relationship with the piece that you're working on. Lisa Gerrard
silence mouths lasts
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, Lewis Carroll
silence stories wanted
The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell. Joyce Maynard
silence protect
I continued to protect him with my silence. Joyce Maynard
silence dying trying
The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me. Karl Rahner
silence midnight
Hushed as midnight silence. John Dryden
silence speak conspiracy
A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words. John Lennon
silence teeth mouths
Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth. Jimmy Durante
silence wish sometimes
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end. Emanuel Ax
silence movement individual
Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence. Ellen Willis