Silence Quotes - Page 72

Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.