Silence Quotes - Page 109

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Silence is the garment of light.

You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.

The silence killed your faith.

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.

There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.

Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.

Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.

New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.