Silence Quotes - Page 58

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

But there is that certain something about wanting to do the will of God. If one is sincere and if one really wants to know what His will is, all one has to do is be quiet. Shut off the television and radio, and in that silence one will always hear that still small voice in one's heart telling him what to do.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer. ... I had before only sensed intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

When I'm away from a red carpet, I'm a big introvert, I'm very quiet, and I like to sit in silence at home with my cat, Nino, who is my whole world, or most of it.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Never let anyone silence your voice.

Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.