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Le silence e  ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.

Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle.

Let's have a moment of silence for all the chubby Asian dudes that are getting 'Gangnam style!' yelled at them by bros around the world.

Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours.

Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose." I nodded. "I can do that." "No," said Dimitri. "You can't." "Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me. "Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans." There was an uncomfortable silence in the car. "No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

Male silence is not the same as listening

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.