Silence Quotes · Page 100

When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.

— Tony Hatch

“A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used. Powerlessness and silence go together.”

— Margaret Atwood

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

— Paul Simon

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

— Jack Kornfield

Silence is a power only in the hands of enlightened minds, but weakness in the mind of helpless persons.

— Anuj Somany

“We sit in silence, all the unanswered and unasked questions thicker than the wall of glass between us.”

— Carolee Dean

My SILENCE doesn't mean I am IGNORING you. I just LOVE YOU so much that I hste FIGHTING with you...

— Anonymous

“In the dark, there is silence but in the light there is warmth.”

— Sonya Watson

“If an audience kept complete silence during a challenge parable from Jesus and if an audience filed past him afterward saying, 'Lovely…

— John Dominic Crossan

He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to…

— Tyson Fury

“I think about my own silence. Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear. I guess that’s why…

— Paul Beatty

At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened…

— Thubten Yeshe

“By quieting externally, you gain the space internally. Life is a flow - it goes on. Good or bad, it will always…

— Amit Ray

“It was as though the house had been left empty but a minute before and yet that minute was fraught with eternity…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich…

— Anu Lal

Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The pull of Guyland reminds us that women cannot accomplish this transformation alone. In the book's final chapter I argue that just…

— Michael Kimmel

Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about…

— Vera Nazarian

The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and…

— Anonymous

“The nurses’ station was unmanned, which was odd. Taylor felt her chest tighten. Something was wrong. Stealing glances, she saw the hallways…

— J.T. Ellison

I took some time... to kind of check in with myself, sit in silence, and do all the things that we're supposed…

— Jerrika Hinton

When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed.…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I had lots of good intentions but I wasted them on people who didn't deserve them...”

— Bellamkonda Avinash Babu

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

— Elizabeth Kostova

“If anyone wants to pray, he should do it in the silence of the church and not carry on like people at…

— Oliver Pötzsch

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

— Anonymous

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

— Audre Lorde

“always struck him how much more effective silence was than words. If the effect you were after was to disconcert.”

— Louise Penny

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

— Anonymous

“Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— Confucius

Music expresses what cant be said, and what is impossible to keep silent.

— Xuan Ta

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

— John Heider

“Nothing is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.”

— James Kent

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

— Epictetus

“Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

— Boyle Roche

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

— Emanuel Geibel