“They still didn’t talk on the bus, but it had become a less confrontational silence. Almost friendly. (But not quite.)” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path,… — F.T. McKinstry Copy Share Image
“Who are you? A noise or a melody? Or may be you are a silence! If you are a silence, then you… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I pitched ideas for fashion stories to magazines for years. And it was often; 'No, no, nope, next,' or worse, just silence. — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
“We stared straight ahead in silence until Blake said,“Wanna talk about plants?” “I’d love to talk about plants. And, boy, did we.” — A.E. Kirk Copy Share Image
“But this was like old movies, the silent theater haunted with black-and-white ghosts, silvery mouths opening to let moonlight smoke out, gestures… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
If a person is silent, it doesn't mean they don't know how to enjoy. But it means that life has taught them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
“The silence that, without any deferential air, listens with polite attention, is more flattering than compliments, and more frequently broken for the… — Arthur Martine Copy Share Image
However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I have this beast. He comes and goes at will. Silence. He's very powerful. Silence. He has control over me. Silence. I… — Julie Mannix von Zerneck Copy Share Image
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“But talking to fill the silence was how most people dealt with the kind of pressure that pervaded the room, a strain… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
“… for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation.… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Pressed from all corners, you often things, If I could just have eight hours of quiet. You will have that someday, but… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“Going at it alone had been my badge of honor. How foolish. I confused silence with strength… Shutting out others is weak… — Richard M. Cohen Copy Share Image
“115. Infallibly, silence leads to God, provided man stops looking at himself. For even in the experience of silence, there is a snare:… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing… — Isaac Hecker Copy Share Image
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“As long as you need time to think my affections and wishes are unchanged, and one word from you will silence me… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
At least if I keep my love a secret, he and I can still have this wonderful, odd, exciting relationship where I… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
