Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Rumi

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

J. K. Rowling

He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.

George Herbert

More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]

Jose Marti

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir

Henry David Thoreau

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

Norton Juster

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Cassandra Clare

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Gary Player

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

Gary Oldman

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

Franz Wright

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

Christine Baranski

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.