Silence Quotes - page 4

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies. (Ben Carson)
Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy. View quote
Taylor Swift
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. View quote
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
The most profound statements are often said in silence. View quote
Lynn Johnston
Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter. View quote
Buster Keaton
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. View quote
Inayat Khan
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
George Eliot
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. View quote
Joan Miró
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. View quote
Susan Sontag
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. (Jean Arp)
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. View quote
Cicero
Silence is so accurate. View quote
Mark Rothko
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence. View quote
Jack Kerouac
The silence was an intense roar. View quote
Jack Kerouac
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. View quote
Elie Wiesel
I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree. View quote
Elie Wiesel
We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. is soon forgotten, butlasts forever. (Philip Pullman)
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Emil Cioran
Calumnies are answered best with silence. View quote
Ben Jonson
Every now and then, when you're onstage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. View quote
Shelley Winters
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