Silence Quotes - Page 76

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

Meditation is the action of silence.

The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.

Silence creates it's own violence.

If you dont have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

It takes some silence to make sound.

Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence.

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush

I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - "You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom."

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.