Silence Quotes - Page 66

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

There are times when I have to take, I call it a “silence bath,” where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

A story that must be told never forgives silence.

By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.

Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak

The pull of Guyland reminds us that women cannot accomplish this transformation alone. In the book's final chapter I argue that just as men need to stand up, do the right thing and break the silence that perpetuates Guyland, so, too, do women need to support each other in resisting its pull.

The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

Things that are real are given and received in silence.

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.