Quotes of: Reticence Keyword

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

William E. Gladstone

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

Lisa Guerrero

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Pamela Stephenson

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Enzo Ferrari

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Teju Cole

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

William Shatner

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

British Bulldog

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

Margaret J. Wheatley

In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.

The Book of Tea

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.

Madeleine Stowe

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

Jacques Audiard

Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.

Robert Smith

A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers – only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticent men.

The Path to Power

Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken.

Thomas Merton

As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push th...

Kara Swisher

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

The Education of Henry Adams

Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this ...

Sheryl Sandberg

Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies or homosexuals. But my dad didn't care. Let them raise their kids in a reserved and reticent way. He grew up in Israel, and h...

Ezekiel Emanuel

Often confused with shyness, introversion does not imply social reticence or discomfort. Rather than being averse to social engagement, introverts become overwhelmed by too much of it, which explains why the introvert is ready to leave a party after ...

Laurie Helgoe

History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest