Quotes of: Silences Keyword

Dr. Frederick Chilton: Oh my, does he hate us. Thinks I'm his nemesis.

The Silence of the Lambs

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

Robert Scheer

This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be...

Rumi

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. I...

The Notebook

When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, lik...

The Shape of Water

Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences...

Tillie Olsen

Wisdom consists of ten parts -- nine parts of silence and one part with few words.

Arabian

I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

No Man Is an Island

You need to train yourself to be comfortable with silence, particularly when dealing with cultures that respect silence more than we do in the West.

The Leadership Coach

Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them.

Truly, Madly, Deeply

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

A Wrinkle in Time

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

Two Boys Kissing

Un livre est un peu de silence entre les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit calme. Celui qui le lit ne rompt pas le silence.

Pascal Quignard

Le livre est un morceau de silence dans les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit se tait. Celui qui lit ne rompt pas le silence.

Pascal Quignard

For the sea to be silent, wind must be silent, earthquake must be silent, boat must be silent, fish must be silent; behind every silence, there lies the silence of everything!

Mehmet Murat ildan