Silence Quotes - Page 21

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Silence is the only Voice of our God.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.

... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.

You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

May my silences become more accurate.

I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

Americans whisper the word Alzheimer's because their government whispers the word Alzheimer's. And although a whisper is better than the silence that the Alzheimer's community has been facing for decades, it's still not enough. It needs to be yelled and screamed to the point that it finally gets the attention and the funding that it deserves and needs.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.