It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
~By Francis Beaumont ~
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 ~
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
~By Henri Nouwen ~
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
~By Lech Walesa ~
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
~By Robert Stone ~
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
~By Edith Wharton ~
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
~By Mark Helprin ~
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
~By Sam Mendes ~
No one nor anything can silence me.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
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 ~
Silence is more musical than any song.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
~By Pythagoras ~
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
~By Kate Adie ~
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 ~
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
~By William Dean Howells ~
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
~By Michel De Certeau ~
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 ~
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 ~
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
~By Boyle Roche ~
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 ~
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
~By Elliott Carter ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.
~By Gordon Getty ~
Silence is a source of great strength.
~By Lao Tzu ~
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
~By Mark Stevens ~
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
Only silence perfects silence.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.
~By Brittany Daniel ~
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 ~
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 ~
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
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 ~
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
~By William Drummond ~
Their silence is praise enough.
~By Terence ~
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
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 ~
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
~By Zane Grey ~
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
~By Oliver Herford ~
We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
~By Emanuel Ax ~
Great souls suffer in silence.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Silence is more eloquent than words.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.
~By Britney Spears ~
Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
~By Craig Bruce ~
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
~By Sting ~
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 ~
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Music is the silence between the notes.
~By Claude Debussy ~
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 ~
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
~By William O. Douglas ~
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~By Margaret Lee Runbeck ~
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
~By Jane Austen ~
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
~By Pam Brown ~
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
~By John Morley ~
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 ~
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
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 ~
One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
~By Andre Kostelanetz ~
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
~By Aeschylus ~
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
~By Jonathan Demme ~
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
~By Vittorio Alfieri ~
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
~By Al Roker ~
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
~By Confucius ~
Your silence will not protect you.
~By Audre Lorde ~
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
~By Arthur Helps ~
Your silence gives consent.
~By Plato ~
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
~By Charles Simic ~
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
~By Margaret Halsey ~
The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
~By Thomas Starr King ~
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 ~
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
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.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
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 ~
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 ~
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
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 ~
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