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The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.

These two are the parts. The inner silence - the silence so deep that there is no vibration in your being. You are, but there are no waves. You are just a pool without waves, not a single wave arises. The whole being silent, still. Inside, at the center, silence, and on the periphery, celebration and laughter. And only silence can laugh, because only silence can understand the cosmic joke.

The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen.

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.

The silence was an intense roar.

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when you're with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

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.

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.