Quotes about silence
silence modesty think-and-grow-rich
Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence. Napoleon Hill
silence enemy silent
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. Norman Maclean
silence shadow world
I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows. Novala Takemoto
silence use sound
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time. Norton Juster
silence speech mouths
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. Emile M. Cioran
silence speech pay
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
silence speech quiet
Silence is safer than speech. Epictetus
silence few-words silence-is
Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
silence dialect might
So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr
silence victim silence-is
But silence is where victims dwell. Nelly Sachs
silence female woven
Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience, Rachel Simmons
silence criticism world
They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism. Nhat Hanh
silence my-favorite conditions
I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition. Mike Nichols
silence heavy beads
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. Jodi Picoult
silence sitting sound
Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
silence needs
We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it. Kim Basinger
silence poet fingers
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. Joseph Joubert
silence causes silent
Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. Ovid
silence secret faults
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.
silence feelings mind
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. Mary Wollstonecraft
silence speak lifetime
After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak. Marya Hornbacher
silence way okay
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are. Martha Grimes
silence important stills
There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do. Martha Beck
silence dumb soul
There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos. Paul Goodman
silence world scandal
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence. Moliere
silence
Silence too can be indiscreet. Natalie Clifford Barney
silence sun
Sun, silence, and happiness. Nancy Mitford
silence musician canvas
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence. Keith Richards
silence paper musician
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
silence secret
He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers. Kim Edwards
silence would-be obedience
If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence. Neal A. Maxwell
silence scare violence
It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many Martin Luther King, Jr.
silence honest violent
I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.