Best 3011 quotes in «silence quotes» category

To restore silence is the role of objects.

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

True silence is really endless speech.

True silence is the speech of lovers.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Val, I'm on Bourbon—” “I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. Don‟t even ask it.” Ash rolled his eyes at the Roman‟s arrogant tone. “I need you in the swamp.” Silence answered him. "We have a situation." “Where do you need me?

Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.

Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'

Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm." "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across sometimes it's wise to say, Why don't we stop here and have a moment of silence, then go in a completely different direction?

We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

We can't leave the internet to the bullies. You deserve to speak out and be heard just as much as the next man. Don't let bullies silence you. Support others, and make sure you look after yourself.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.