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silence defense opponents
Charles Caleb Colton When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
silence assertion
Charles Dickens We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
silence stopping looks
Alan Watts To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.
silence building crescendo
Chogyam Trungpa As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence tragedy might
Chogyam Trungpa If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence lasts bed
Edith Wharton He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.
silence may speech
Edith Wharton Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
silence ifs
David Hockney If you like music you like silence actually.
enemy want ifs
Charles Caleb Colton If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
enemy thee harm
Charles Caleb Colton Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
enemy causes violent
Charles Caleb Colton If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
enemy may
Aiden Wilson Tozer Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.
enemy religion liberty
David Hume Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.
enemy perfect
David Pearlman The perfect may be the enemy of the good.
enemy conscience
William Shakespeare Our enemies are our outward consciences.
enemy seems
William Shakespeare 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
enemy speak
Bertolt Brecht He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
might impossible wells
Barnett Newman I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.
might likes given
Audrey Tautou It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.
might stranger
Deb Caletti They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.
might
Lorraine Toussaint I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
might shape
John Milton The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.
might opposed people point
Joe Vinson The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think,
might
Mike Stackpole We still thought we might be able to do it.
might suspects universe
Kurt Vonnegut One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
might bed very-good
Bill Nighy I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.