Quotes about silence
silence grace female
Your highest female grace is silence. Ben Jonson
silence calumny
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
silence suffering males
I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly. Alexandra Adornetto
silence causes dangerous
In some causes silence is dangerous.
silence golden programming
It is tact that is golden, not silence. Samuel Butler
silence till-the-end noble
For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end. Algernon Charles Swinburne
silence kind applause
The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts. Alfred Jarry
silence littles rift
It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. Alfred Lord Tennyson
silence fool silence-is
Silence is the best reply to a fool.
silence grace mercy
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope. Aberjhani
silence
Only silence perfects silence. A. R. Ammons
silence gains mortals
To many mortals silence great gain brings. Aeschylus
silence speech misery
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
silence world violence
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. Adrienne Rich
silence overcoming break
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
silence trying division
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history. Adam Hochschild
silence noise silence-love
...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise. Colum McCann
silence purpose lasts
Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last; it is less shame for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence. Francis Quarles
silence stick
What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time. Jonathan Katz
silence statement
Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
silence listening sound
Listen to the sound of silence. Paul Simon
silence doorways
External silence can be the doorway to inner silence. Ram Dass
silence sound corny
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here. Daniel Barenboim
silence ends notes
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
silence stillness
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. Dag Hammarskjold
silence would-be appreciated
A period of silence on your part would be appreciated. Clement Attlee
silence deeds should
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Dante Alighieri
silence
The rest, is silence. William Shakespeare
silence soul humanity
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity. E. F. Schumacher
silence jurisprudence innocence
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
silence speech silent
Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen. Alice Hoffman
silence textbooks magazines
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. Alice Hamilton
silence friendly passionate
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content. Alice Duer Miller