We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Silence will illuminate you in God... and deliver you from phantoms of ignorance. Silence will unite you to God… In the beginning… — Isaac of Nenevah Copy Share Image
The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“ …(my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
An act goes much farther than a word will ever travel. Even when someone is silent, in different situations this silence is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest;… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Our biggest moments have happened in silence. In glances and embraces. As though our souls had found rest within each other. As… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“Augustine of Hippo said, “Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea.… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent.… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
“We have no idea how busy God's hands are even when His mouth seems closed. Where God is concerned, silence never equals… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know. And even the survivors who have decided to bear witness confirm… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“God first created silence: whole, indivisible, complete. All creatures--man, woman, beast, insect, bird, and fish--lived happily together with this silence until one… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
“Yet when we came back, from the hyacinth garden, Yours arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest.… — William Braithwaite Copy Share Image
This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows, Come to us, go from us, whence… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“If you are trading silence or compliance for love, you are being cheated. When acceptance or love is withheld if you reveal… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“The doorway into the silent land is a wound. Silence lays bare this wound. We do not journey far along the spiritual… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“Wren?' he says. 'Talk to me.' I don't reply. What would be the point? I know he will twist me around his… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There are quiet places also in the mind,” he said, meditatively. “But we build bandstand and factories on them. Deliberately—to put a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No calls, no emails, no Facebook messages, no letters, no Morse code with a flashlight during the dark hours of the night,… — Salla Simukka Copy Share Image
I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter. The same thing has nearly happened a few times already. It's just a physical phenomenon, no more. The spring… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“… for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
![“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will…” quote by Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/868/wallace-stegner-1352_darkness_the-modern-age-knows-nothing-about-isola_1349271.jpg)
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