My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. ~By Frank R. Wolf ~
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. ~By George Eliot ~
In some causes silence is dangerous. ~By Saint Ambrose ~
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. ~By Pam Brown ~
I refuse to be silenced. ~By Al Goldstein ~
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep. ~By Karl Shapiro ~
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. ~By Margaret Atwood ~
It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. ~By Helen Thomas ~
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ~By Federico Fellini ~
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.' ~By Al Roker ~
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. ~By Phyllis McGinley ~
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~By Edith Sitwell ~
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. ~By Phillips Brooks ~
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen! ~By Johannes Tauler ~
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ~By Nellie Bly ~
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. ~By Marshall McLuhan ~
A moment of silence is not inherently religious. ~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. ~By Thomas Hood ~
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. ~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. ~By William Drummond ~
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer? ~By Steven Wright ~
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. ~By Federico Garcia Lorca ~
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. ~By Samuel Beckett ~
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. ~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. ~By Devon Werkheiser ~
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. ~By Audre Lorde ~
Silence moves faster when it's going backward. ~By Jean Cocteau ~
Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story. ~By Bob Newhart ~
I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall. ~By Trey Anastasio ~
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. ~By Susan Sontag ~
In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance. ~By Alejandro Amenabar ~
Silence is more musical than any song. ~By Christina Rossetti ~
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. ~By Jane Austen ~
Silence is true wisdom's best reply. ~By Euripides ~
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. ~By Samuel Butler ~
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. ~By Marianne Moore ~
Music is the silence between the notes. ~By Claude Debussy ~
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ~By Octavio Paz ~
We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I continued to protect him with my silence. ~By Joyce Maynard ~
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. ~By Leopold Stokowski ~
I shall assume that your silence gives consent. ~By Plato ~
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds. ~By Isaiah Berlin ~
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. ~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ~By Mark Stevens ~
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. ~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. ~By Walter Elliot ~
Silence is better than unmeaning words. ~By Pythagoras ~
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. ~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Great souls suffer in silence. ~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter. ~By Jean Racine ~
Only silence perfects silence. ~By A. R. Ammons ~
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. ~By Charles Buxton ~
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ~By Philip Pullman ~
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. ~By Aishwarya Rai ~
Speech is the small change of silence. ~By George Meredith ~
Silence is best. ~By John Hewson ~
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ~By Abraham Lincoln ~
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence. ~By Alex Trebek ~
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. ~By Philip Pullman ~
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm. ~By Aeschylus ~
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun. ~By George Catlin ~
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence. ~By Bernadette Devlin ~
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. ~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. ~By Myrtle Reed ~
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know. ~By William R. Benet ~
The most boring thing in the world? Silence. ~By Justin Timberlake ~
Silence is a source of great strength. ~By Lao Tzu ~
People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things. ~By Dana Hill ~
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. ~By Marcel Marceau ~
Silence is safer than speech. ~By Epictetus ~
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair. ~By Angelina Grimke ~
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. ~By Georg Trakl ~
If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. ~By Matthew Perry ~
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ~By Dorothy Dix ~
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. ~By Marilu Henner ~
Silence is the mother of truth. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Strong efforts may be made to deny the place, to silence the authentic, but the spirit of things will break through that silence. ~By John Haynes ~
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. ~By Aime Cesaire ~
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. ~By Pindar ~
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. ~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Silence is the unbearable repartee. ~By Alexander Theroux ~
It is tact that is golden, not silence. ~By Samuel Butler ~
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ~By George Steiner ~
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. ~By Octavia Butler ~
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer? ~By Steven Wright ~
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. ~By Don DeLillo ~
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school. ~By Herman Hesse ~
The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. ~By Ursula K. LeGuin ~
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. ~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people. ~By Cynthia McKinney ~
With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. ~By Curt Weldon ~
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. ~By Ausonius ~
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. ~By Blaise Pascal ~
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. ~By Marquis de Sade ~
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