True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
~By F. H. Bradley ~
I love silence.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
~By Elayne Boosler ~
Silence is the mother of truth.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
~By Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
~By Steven Wright ~
And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
~By Robert Scheer ~
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
~By Alexander Theroux ~
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
~By Brigham Young ~
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.
~By Brittany Daniel ~
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
~By Alice Cooper ~
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 ~
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
~By Confucius ~
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
~By William O. Douglas ~
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
~By George Washington Cable ~
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
~By Mason Cooley ~
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
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 ~
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
~By Helen Keller ~
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 ~
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
~By Albert Camus ~
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
~By Paul Simon ~
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
I continued to protect him with my silence.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
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 ~
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
~By Susan Griffin ~
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
The most boring thing in the world? Silence.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
~By John Morley ~
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. ~
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
No one nor anything can silence me.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
Silence is best.
~By John Hewson ~
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
~By Aeschylus ~
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.
~By Matthew Perry ~
Silence is a source of great strength.
~By Lao Tzu ~
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
~By Mark Helprin ~
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
~By Vittorio Alfieri ~
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
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.
~By Martin Buber ~
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
~By Charles Simmons ~
Your silence gives consent.
~By Plato ~
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.
~By Emily Watson ~
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
~By John Tillotson ~
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
~By Judy Garland ~
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 ~
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
~By Margaret Halsey ~
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
~By Marcel Marceau ~
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
~By Elizabeth I ~
The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
~By Thomas Starr King ~
There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.
~By Wes Borland ~
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
~By Jane Austen ~
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
~By Anthony de Mello ~
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
~By Marianne Moore ~
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
~By Bob Monkhouse ~
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
~By Robert M. La Follette ~
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.
~By Dino De Laurentiis ~
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
~By Zoltan Kodaly ~
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~By Margaret Lee Runbeck ~
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
~By Hazrat Inayat Khan ~
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 ~
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 ~
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
~By Al Roker ~
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
~By William Dean Howells ~
Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
~By Budd Schulberg ~
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~By William Penn ~
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
~By Andre Kostelanetz ~
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
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 ~
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
~By Sophocles ~
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
~By Mary Webb ~
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