Quotes of: Silencing Keyword

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Albert Camus

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

Michel De Certeau

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Enoch Powell

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

Elie Wiesel

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Christopher Lasch

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

Tranquility, serenity, and beauty of nature taught me how to find happiness in life and in the silence of eternity.

Debasish Mridha

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Benjamin Franklin

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

Ben Kingsley

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

Gordon Getty

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

Giacomo Leopardi

Silence is wisdom. Close your eyes and you will find more truth than what others say.

Jeremy Limn

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

Jocelyn Murray

Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air.

Jennifer Perry

When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.

Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me.

Debasish Mridha

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

Jay Griffiths

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

Jack Kevorkian

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

Dino De Laurentiis

Richard Brown: Oh, Mrs. Dalloway... Always giving parties to cover the silence.

The Hours