Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sandburg

Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

Calvin Coolidge

You don't have to explain something you never said.

Jane Austen

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Blaise Pascal

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

Denis Diderot

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

Ben Lee

In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

Alfred Jarry

The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.

Tony Fratto

No one wants to see these kinds of international tensions over these issues.

Mike Wilton

The team did well at times, and didn't play well at times. It was one of those kinds of matches.

Jim Calhoun

Sometimes I'd like to see them with more swagger. Perhaps we'll walk out of here with that kind of swagger.

Elliott Smith

I've been here all three nights. I kind of like it down here by the river.

Sara Schopper

That's kind of how we've been all year at the line. We've been in and out all year.

Jane Goodall

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Cesar Chavez

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.

Carol Burnett

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

Alex Pareene

The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.

Dwane Casey

Flip deserves it. You give your heart and soul to an organization for 10 years, and you deserve applause and a thank you. No matter how it ended, it was a good ride.

Erin Morgenstern

Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

Ken Blanchard

I once heard profit is the applause you get for taking care of customers and your people,

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Serge Schmemann

We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.

Walt Whitman

When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.

Dave Bruns

We would like to see thunderous applause for the governor's visionary initiative to ensure accountability for our most vulnerable citizens before, during and after a natural disaster.