Sometimes it doesn't matter how right you are... sometimes just shutting up is the best course of action. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I'm one of those really nice people who are always pushed around. I hate that I don't speak up or barely make… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
“Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
“I gave chances. I gave love. I gave respect. Now I give silence. And it’s louder than everything I ever said.” — Garima Soni Copy Share Image
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“It's obvious that the happy man feels contented only because the unhappy ones bear their burden without saying a word: if it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence. "There is much I don't understand." "That will never change,"… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than… — Martina Cole Copy Share Image
[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it… [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full… — William Habington Copy Share Image
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
Well, Ma, see... there's this girl." Silence. He checked to make sure the call hadn't been dropped. "You still there, Ma?" A… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“A man whose sense of shame has some profundity encounters his destinies and delicate decisions, too, on paths which few ever reach… — Frederick Niestzsche Copy Share Image
If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in… — Arthur Baer Copy Share Image
She looks at him, but then looks away. He looks at her, and wishes he had the right words to say. — Patience Copy Share Image
Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart. — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
Sometimes tears are a sign of unspoken happiness and a smile is a sign of silent pain. — The Ultimate Copy Share Image
Silence is compliance, and not saying anything means you are okay with what is going on. — Porsha Williams Copy Share Image
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book. — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
“And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer, And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer.” — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“Sexuality is the door to love, and love is the door to silence, to the divine.” — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“...both of us had a lot to say, but there was no room to say it in, we were so tense and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I am speechless: what can I answer? I put hand on my mouth. I have said too much already; now I will… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.” — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences. — Will Youmans Copy Share Image