Quotes about silence
silence way okay
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are. Martha Grimes
silence important stills
There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do. Martha Beck
silence quality modesty
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. Michel de Montaigne
silence speech corporations
The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own. Michael Kinsley
silence temptation
The silence was always the greates temptation. Markus Zusak
silence progressive achieve
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it. Mark Twain
silence feelings deepest-feelings
The deepest feelings always show itself in silence. Marianne Williamson
silence soul sabbath
Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
silence speak ifs
If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak. Chris Rose
silence silent poisonous
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. Friedrich Nietzsche
silence answers fool
Silence is the best answer to a fool. Nnedi Okorafor
silence refuge silence-is
Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. Mitch Albom
silence noise comfort
Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?
silence criticism citizens
I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents. Thomas Jefferson
silence politics habit
Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
silence elegy
A word is elegy to what it signifies. Robert Hass
silence mindfulness forests
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence. Eckhart Tolle
silence lambs frightening
Silence Of The Lambs is definitely very frightening. Jonathan Jackson
silence lambs partners
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money! Jonathan Demme
silence democracy information
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. Kate Adie
silence stories ends
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. Kate Atkinson
silence world quiet
The most boring thing in the world? Silence. Justin Timberlake
silence heard eloquent
I have never heard a more eloquent silence. Laurie Halse Anderson
silence heard eloquent
He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
silence soul catholic
Silence does good to the soul. Therese of Lisieux
silence grace wilderness
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace. Terry Tempest Williams
silence said knows
I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead! Terry Pratchett
silence darkness mind
In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told. Terence McKenna
silence speech saying-nothing
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence. Simone de Beauvoir
silence cry indifferent
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries. Simone Weil
silence pleasure scoundrels
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. Remy de Gourmont
silence purity
Out of purity and silence comes the word of power. Swami Vivekananda
silence mind done
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence. Sri Aurobindo